Confluence 3.5 : Confluence Search Syntax
This page last changed on Dec 17, 2009 by ggaskell.
Here's how you can refine your search. Confluence will ignore common words like "the" unless you place your query within quotes. Exact phrase search To search for content that contains the exact phrase "chalk and cheese"
"chalk and cheese"
Or Search To search for content that contains one of the terms, "chalk" OR "cheese"
chalk OR cheese To search for content that contains both the terms "chalk" AND "cheese"
chalk AND cheese To search for content that contains "chalk" but NOT "cheese"
chalk NOT cheese Similar to the NOT search, to search for content that contains "chalk" and "butter" but NOT "cheese"
chalk butter -cheese To search for content that MUST contain "chalk" but CAN contain either "cheese" or "butter" use the search:
(cheese OR butter) AND chalk To search for content with "chalk" in its title, where title is the field keyword.
title:chalk Wild card searches Single character To search for "butter" or "batter" you can use the search:
b?tter To search for "chicken" or "chickpea" you can use the search: chick* ![]() For example: *chick is an invalid search term. Multiple characters To search for "chick" or "chickpea":
c*c* You can also combine search characters to get the exact word. For example the search term below will return "chick" yet not "chickpea": c*c?
Proximity searches
"octagon post"~1 will return "Octagon blog post". "octagon post"~0 Range search
[adam to ben] Fuzzy search
To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:
octogan~ Combined search You can also combine various search terms together:
o?tag* AND past~ AND ("blog" AND "post") RELATED TOPICSSearching Confluence Take me back to Confluence User's Guide |
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