Confluence 2.8 : Confluence Search Syntax
This page last changed on Jun 16, 2008 by smaddox.
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 And SearchTo search for content that contains both the terms "chalk" AND "cheese" chalk AND cheese Not searchTo search for content that contains "chalk" but NOT "cheese" chalk NOT cheese Excluded Term searchSimilar to the NOT search, to search for content that contains "chalk" and "butter" but NOT "cheese" chalk butter -cheese Grouping SearchTo search for content that MUST contain "chalk" but CAN contain either "cheese" or "butter" use the search: (cheese OR butter) AND chalk Title SearchTo search for content with "chalk" in its title, where title is the field keyword. title:chalk Wild card searchesSingle 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 serch term. Mutliple 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 "chic" yet not "chickpea": c*c? Proximity searches ![]() "octagon post"~1
will return "Octagon blog post". "octagon post"~0
is an invalid search term. Range search
[adam to ben] Note: You can't use the AND keyword inside this statement.
Fuzzy search
To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:
octogan~ will correctly return "octagon" Combined search You can also combine various search terms together:
o?tag* AND past~ AND ("blog" AND "post")
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