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Purpose of this document

This page is intended for developers and advanced users of Confluence. It gives an overview of the Apache Lucene search fields used in Confluence.

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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.

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

Confluence Search Fields

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

Personal Information

Name Indexed Stored Tokenised Notes
handle true true false  
type true true false  
urlPath true true false  
fullName true true true  
username true true true  
title true true false  
labelText true true true  
modified true true false  
created true true false  
userpermission 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  
userpermission true true false  
contentBody true true true  
lastModifiers true true false Username of the user who last updated the page.
creatorName true true false Username of the user who added the page.

News

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  
userpermission true true false  
contentBody true true true  
lastModifiers true true false Username of the user who last updated the news item.
creatorName true true false Username of the user who created the news item.

Attachments

Name Indexed Stored Tokenised 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  
userpermission true true false  
contentBody true true true  

Mail Items

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  
messageid true true false  
inreplyto true true false  
recipients true true true  
labelText true true true  
modified true true false  
created true true false
userpermission true true false  
contentBody true true true  
lastModifiers true true false The username of the user who did the mail import, not the person who sent the email message.
creatorName true true false The username of the user who did the mail import, not the person who sent the email message.
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