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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).

What's CQL, and how do I use it?

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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.

On this page:

Related pages:

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.

Last modified on Jan 20, 2019

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