Suggestion for Searchbar macro to ONLY search within the page it is added
4 answers
Exactly my thoughts -- Confluence pages are currently missing a native on-page search feature, and unfortunately there's no built-in way to achieve this.
But I've been experimenting with an app we're developing and managed to build a solution that works quite well.
It's a user macro that retrieves the page content, performs a live search, and lets users jump directly to the matching item on the page.
Here's a ready-to-use template, along with how it looks in action:
If you'd like to try it out or need any help setting it up, just let me know!
@Manon Kouwenhoven One thing I do to make it easier for readers to find terms is to put a heading above each group. You can do each applicable letter or a group of letters in the heading. I have mine in tables for formatting purposes. I don't have that many terms, so I group them like this:
At the top of the page, I have a Table of contents macro configured like this, so it only includes the headings that I have used (e.g., if you don't group and have no terms that start with Q, you don't put in that heading so that Q doesn't appear in your TOC):
For searching within only the current page, I would put a note at the top suggesting that people use their browser's Find feature. This is probably the best workaround for now, since I'm not sure whether Atlassian would put a high priority on your feature request.
You must be a registered user to add a comment. If you've already registered, sign in. Otherwise, register and sign in.