Why are there no highlight options for searches?

Question

I keep hearing that the preview will highlight the words but that does not happen. I downloaded the only app that supposedly highlights the words when you actually get to the page but that doesn't work either.

Search functionality without highlights or ability to go right to the search term rather than dumping you at the top of a 40 page document is somewhat worthless.

Diego_88dj6o · Answer

Hi Michael!

I installed the plugin locally, with Confluence 6.12.2, which is listed as compatible in the plugin page:

Highlight Search Result for Confluence

The plugin did not work as intended. With this result, I looked through logs but nothing related to the plugin was shown there.

There are couple possibilities here:

* the plugin needs to be fixed for newer versions
* there are errors but we need to specify the class so logs are shown

Either way, we would need some input from the developer himself.

Further, could you send us a screenshot of the problem you are facing when trying to raise a ticket? We would like to take a look on this behaviour.

Let us know!

Michael Thompson_ivlq2n · Answer

By the way I'm working with the people who created this app and they want me to open a ticket but when I try to log into Atlassian to open a ticket it just gives me a little spinning icon thing and never does anything else. Literally for hours it just keeps spinning. I've tried different browsers different networks and still nothing works. So I can't even work with them because there is no way to reply to an email.

Michael Thompson_ivlq2n · Answer

App is Highlight Search Results for Confluence. I can't find any others. Mostly it doesn't work now even if I do Advanced Search. I'm just using whatever Search appears in the nav bar at the top of Confluence. I try to search only pages or whatever way I can try to filter to see if it will actually show highlights but it doesn't even show them in the search results listing let alone on pages or documents. I get that it may not show highlights on documents but it should show them at least on pages.

We are using a Confluence Server.