Confluence Search Fields
This page gives an overview of the Apache Lucene search fields used in Confluence.
Filter with CQL
Before you dive into learning more about Lucene fields, you may want to learn about the powerful search filtering offered by Confluence Query Language (CQL).
Searching for content in specific fields
Confluence data is stored in fields which can be specified in the search. To search a specific field, type the name of the field followed by a colon ':' and then the term you are looking for. For example:
title:"Some Title"
labelText:chalk
The field specification applies only to the term directly preceding the colon. For example, the query below will look for "Some" in the title field and will search for "Heading" in the default fields.
title:Some Heading
To learn more about using Confluence search fields in an advanced search query, head to Confluence Search Syntax.
Confluence search fields
Below are the fields which can be searched, listed by content type.
Personal Information
Name | Indexed | Stored | Tokenized | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
handle | true | true | false | |
type | true | true | false | |
urlPath | true | true | false | |
fullName | true | true | true | |
title | true | true | false | |
labelText | true | true | true | |
modified | true | true | false | |
created | true | true | false | |
contentBody | true | true | true |
Pages
Name | Indexed | Stored | Tokenized | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
handle | true | true | false | |
type | true | true | false | |
urlPath | true | true | false | |
title | true | true | true | |
spacekey | true | true | false | |
labelText | true | true | true | |
modified | true | true | false | |
created | true | true | false | |
contentBody | true | true | true | |
macroName | true | true | false | The name of a macro used on the page |
Blog
Name | Indexed | Stored | Tokenized | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
handle | true | true | false | |
type | true | true | false | |
urlPath | true | true | false | |
title | true | true | true | |
spacekey | true | true | false | |
labelText | true | true | true | |
modified | true | true | false | |
created | true | true | false | |
contentBody | true | true | true | |
macroName | true | true | false | The name of a macro used in the blog |
Attachments
Name | Indexed | Stored | Tokenized | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
handle | true | true | false | |
type | true | true | false | |
urlPath | true | true | false | |
filename | true | true | true | |
title | true | true | false | |
comment | true | true | true | |
spacekey | true | true | false | |
modified | true | true | false | |
created | true | true | false | |
contentBody | true | true | true |
Mail items
Name | Indexed | Stored | Tokenized | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
handle | true | true | false | |
type | true | true | false | |
urlPath | true | true | false | |
title | true | true | true | |
spacekey | true | true | false | |
messageid | true | true | false | |
inreplyto | true | true | false | |
recipients | true | true | true | |
labelText | true | true | true | |
modified | true | true | false | |
created | true | true | false | |
contentBody | true | true | true |
Notes
To find out the version of Lucene Confluence is using go to <installation directory>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib
and locate the Lucene jar files. The Lucene version number will be part of the filename.