I'm going bonkers here, there are item that start with the {itemid} in the formula criteria but the search is returning no matches. What am I missing here?

I'd probably change it to use

case when {itemid] like 'EVFT%' or {itemid} like 'EVVN%' then ....

It worked! Thank you. It's weird though that the same formula worked in a different saved search.

weird to have quotes in there, I always just do

THEN 1 ELSE 0 END

Both work