Hello Dale,

I'm afraid this can't be achieved, all string LIKE/NOT LIKE comparison operators end up matching substrings, either case sensitive or insentitive, please see here:

* https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/8.0/openerp/osv/expression.py#L1219

Notice how the right leaf (the query parameter) is automatically wrapped in '%' wildcards lines below to end as '%%%s%%' (which evaluates to '%my_search_criteria%').

* https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/8.0/openerp/osv/expression.py#L1242

Filters use search by default, which in turn end using domain expressions and hence the above limitation.

Using the exact match operator '=' prevents wrapping the search criteria in wildcards but then any wildcards explicitly provided in the search criteria (like in 'my_search_criteria%') are not taken into account.

Regards.

You should be able to use the filter with a wildcard like the following for starts with / ends with:

# Starts With C
['name', '=like', 'C%']

# Ends With C
['name', '=like', '%C']