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Hi, is there a search box in Confluence that searches multiple spaces?

DebbieR

Hi,

I have an application that has multiple separate spaces to store FAQs, User Guides and Training Manuals. On the app landing page, I can't find a search box that will search nominated spaces (ie: the separate FAQs, User Guides and Training Manuals spaces), From what I can gather, there is no one search box that searches multiple spaces, you either get to search one space or the whole site. Am I missing something? Thanks very much, Debbie

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Jonathan Simonoff

You can use the search-box macro to add a search like that to a page.

That is, though, part of the Content Formatting plugin. https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros . (Content formatting has a free version and a paid version with more. This is one of the free ones. However, I think your users will still see the paid macros, but not be able to use them, which may be awkward. You might be able to disable the paid macros so they don't show in the macro browser.)

Update: As Debbie pointed out, the macro now just gives you a choice list allowing you to choose the spaces you specified individually, plus you can choose all space and all personal spaces, so it looks like all specifying ones gets you is that they appear in the choice list, individually. So, this does not answer the question sad .

DebbieR

Hi Jonathon,

Thanks very much. I tried that and it comes up with a drop down selection of spaces I can choose from, but they are still searched separately (ie: ProStix FAQs, ProStix User Guides, ProStix Training Manuals and ProStix Videos spaces) See attached. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

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Jonathan Simonoff

Debbie -- you are right. Sorry about that -- I'm not sure if it used to work the way I was expecting, or it was just my expectation. It certainly isn't doing what its docs imply now.

Davin Studer

You can do it with search syntax. Just make sure the Space drop down is set to All Spaces. Below is an example search

policy AND procedure AND (spacekey:HR OR spacekey:TEST)

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Update to add screenshots for below comment:

When you add the live search macro don't specify any space keys.

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Then when you are viewing the page you can use this search syntax to get what you want.

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DebbieR

Thanks Davin but it's actually a search box I want to place on a page. I've tried the Livesearch macro, the search box macro and the knowledge base search macro (we use the Documentation theme) and couldn't get it to work even with your search syntax?

DebbieR

Thanks Jonathon :-)

DebbieR

I've asked Adaptavist. We'll see what they come back with. Thanks

Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]

If you use the subspace-plugin, you get a macro to achieve your goal.

You can organise a structure in your space with a master and so called subspaces. In the plugin is a macro which lets you search in such a group of spaces.

Davin Studer

It should work just fine in the live search macro if you have not set that macro to only search a specified space.

DebbieR

Hi Davin, I don't think it works and I have tried it previously. See": https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Livesearch+Macro and the comment below that is 5 years old now! Hi Stefan, As far as I am concerned, the parameter 'space' accepts just one space name to be searched. Perhaps the following improvement request will enable multiple spaces searches in future. http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7227 Vote for it and feel free to add yourself as watcher.

DebbieR

Thanks so much Steve. I'll install now and test smile

Instant Search

The Instant Search Macro Plugin does this does this.

Stacey Jenkins

Came to this page after searching for a way to limit a search to personal spaces. As of today, the search box doesn't work using the '@personal spaces' configuration on the search box. It still returns results from all spaces.

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