This page last changed on Apr 05, 2010 by smaddox.

When you perform a full Confluence search, Confluence may offer you an alternative spelling of your search query. The alternative spelling will appear next to the words 'Did you mean'. By default, this feature is disabled. You can enable it as described below.

To enable the 'Did You Mean' feature,

  1. Go to the Confluence 'Administration Console'. To do this:

    • Open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Confluence Admin'. The 'Administrator Access' login screen will be displayed.
    • Enter your password and click 'Confirm'. You will be temporarily logged into a secure session to access the 'Administration Console'.
  2. Select 'General Configuration' in the left-hand panel.
  3. In the 'General Configuration' screen, click 'Edit'.
  4. Select 'On' beside 'Did You Mean'.
    If you have no 'Did you mean' feature index or you have not yet created it, this option will not be available. To create this index, click 'build the did-you-mean index' and on the subsequent page, click 'Build' in the 'Did You Mean Index' section. Then return to the 'General Configuration' screen in Edit mode.
  5. Click 'Save'.

Languages and Locales

The 'Did You Mean' feature supports only the English language. In addition, the 'Did You Mean' index requires the built-in UK-English locale (en_UK). If your Confluence site uses a different language pack, such as English (US), the 'Did You Mean' feature will not work. You will see an error message like this:

For Did You Mean both the indexing language and the global default language must be set to English.

For more information about how the 'Did You Mean' feature works, please refer to the user guide.

You can track the request to support other languages by watching issue CONF-14768.

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