How to configure basic search results?

Question

Our company uses the quick search bar that appears at the top of the page as well as search macros on 'homepages' in each space.

We've gotten feedback from employees that:

a) The search results in between the macro and quick search bar are different.

b) The search results in the macro aren't helpful: meaning that when they search for 'xyz' the results are 'complicated and specific xyz' rather than 'intro to xyz.'

Most of the time our 'intro xyz' pages are parent pages with 'complicated xyz' being child pages.

Is it possible to configure the search results to a) be the same and b) show parent pages first?

Robby Holtmann_IntraFind Software AG_ · Answer

Hi @Maggie Cumby

if you want to have more comfort in the search, you might also be interested in our solution iFinder Confluence Search. This enterprise search solution delivers top results based on linguistic analysis and offers many additional features.

Part of this is also the iFinder Search Macro, which delivers search results based on a predefined search settings. All results are user rights checked.  These articles may help you:

* iFinder Confluence Search
* iFinder Search Macro

Cheers

Robby

Andy Gladstone · Answer

@Maggie Cumby Welcome to Confluence.

There is an inhernt difference between the Search Bar and the Macro.

* Search bar = Global search across your entire site
* Search Macro = Limited to the Space that the search is taking place in.

As such, you will not receive the same results from searching in either. And since you are searching on a homepage, the results will be sub-pages, or in your parlance, 'complicated xyz' pages.

Here is some documentation related to the Search Macro to assist you.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-search-results-macro/