AND-Search or OR-search

[Petter Rønningsen]

When I am trying to make a search in Confluence, I by default expect it to be a AND-search, but in our instance of Confluence, it works as a OR-search.

Example: 

1. I search for the word bankid, which gives a result of 273 hits
2. I search for the words bankid api which gives 425 hits
3. I search for "bankid api"  which gives me 49 hits

In my head #2 should worsk as an AND-search and give less hits than #1 because I expect the results to contain both bankid and api.

#3 should work as a phrase-search and give me a hit only if the two words bankid and api occur in secuence, but instaead I seems to me like the use of " gives me an AND-search.

Most our users are familiar with Google an otjher similar search engines, and I would like our instance of Confluence to work as I have described over.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO CONFIGURE HOW THE SEARCH WORKS?

[Ilya Turov]

yes it is possible:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html

you can specify search for either bankid OR api or bankid AND api and many more

[Petter Rønningsen]

Yes, I am aware the use of AND and OR in the search dialogue, but this is not what I am liookng for...: I want change the configuration of our Confluence instance i order to modify the default way the search i made.

If a user enters only bankid api as search criteria, I want that to be processed as an AND-search, not as an OR-search as it is today.