Confluence Search Fields

This page gives an overview of the Apache Lucene search fields used in Confluence.

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.

Preliminary examples:

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

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Confluence search fields

Below are the fields which can be searched, listed by content type.

Personal Information

Name	Indexed	Stored	Tokenised
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	Tokenised	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	Tokenised	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	Tokenised
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	Tokenised
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

More examples

Searching for labels

Use the 'labelText:' prefix to search specifically for content that has a specific label. The table below gives examples of search terms that you can enter into Confluence's search box, and the search results that you can expect.

Searching for ...	Returns content that ...
`recipe labelText:chocolate`	contains the word '`recipe`' or has the label '`chocolate`'
`recipe AND labelText:chocolate`	contains the word '`recipe`' and has the label '`chocolate`'
`labelText:cake OR labelText:chocolate`	has the label '`cake`' or the label '`chocolate`'
`labelText:cake AND labelText:chocolate`	has both labels '`cake`' and '`chocolate`'

The 'labelText:' prefix is an example of a search field. See more about Confluence Search Fields.

Useful plugins

Before installing an add-on (also called a plugin) into your Confluence site, please check the add-on's information page to see whether it is supported by Atlassian, by another vendor, or not at all. See our guidelines on add-on support.

This plugin extends the Confluence search, so that you can search for macro parameter names and values: the Confluence Macro Indexer plugin.

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