The fastest way to find what you are looking for in Confluence is to do a site search. Confluence's search facility is powerful enough to do a full-text search of all content including pages, comments, emails and yes, even attachments!

Quick Search

The Quick Search feature makes it possible for you to search Confluence wherever you happen to be in the site. The Quick Search box is located at the top right hand corner of every screen. Simply type in your query and click the search button.

By default, Confluence will search all content (except mail) in the current space and display the results in a new screen. Here's what happens if you search for 'Confluence' :

Screenshot : Search results for 'Confluence'

For each result, the title of the content item, the space to which it belongs, its author and the date of its last modification are presented. The first two lines from the item are also displayed to give you an indication of its content.

Advanced Search

The Advanced Search allows you to refine your search.

When you do a Quick Search, the Advanced Search facility is displayed along with the results.

  • Space - Search within a particular space.
  • Group by - Decide how you want the results are grouped: by 'content type' or by 'space'.
  • Type - Decide which of the 'content types' you want to search.
  • Date - Search by 'date' of modification.

Screenshot : Advanced Search

Note

Only search results from spaces you have permission to view will be displayed.

RELATED TOPICS

Take me back to Help Home

  • No labels

6 Comments

  1. Mark Johnson

    Oct 21, 2005

    What are the options for specifying multiple search terms, such as using AND/OR and other qualifiers like that?  I can't find any documentation on what I can do.

    1. Miari Tecnologia

      Oct 21, 2005

      http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v3.1.1/querysyntax.html

      1. Mingyi Liu

        Nov 21, 2005

        That seems to be JIRA specific, it doesn't work in Confluence.  Anyone knows if Confluence can be searched with boolean operators or not?  At least exact phrase should be very easy to implement, but I couldn't find the feature/doc anywhere.

        1. Mingyi Liu

          Nov 29, 2005

          I just checked further and communicated with Atlassian, and it seems that I was wrong. The query syntax for JIRA works for Confluence as well, just that when I tested the syntax, I was looking for results in a very large document, whose index was truncated by Lucene, the search engine used by Confluence.  That's why I thought the syntax failed.  Atlassian will possibly provide customization of indexing limit to prevent unwanted truncation.

  2. user-93ab0

    Nov 01, 2005

    The documentation above states that by default Confluence will search the current space - however, in most cases on Confluence 1.4.1, 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 it seems to search all spaces. Is there a setting somewhere to force it to search just the current space?

  3. Mircea Botez

    Jan 19, 2006

    I've been searching around (digging in searchsite-results.vm) for a way to change the number of items displayed in the search page. I tried hacking around in above-mentioned file, but i saw some nice pagination support, so I thought it had to be a better way.

    Is there a place where this number (10 items) is stored?