Will a search in Confluence look inside Macros on a Page for content?

Thomas Bithell

When an macro is placed around content in one page and then the corresponding include macro is placed on other pages, a Confluence search for text contained in the originating macro does not return the pages in the search that include the macro content. Essentially when Confluence is searching Pages it will not look inside include macros.

I believe this is designed behavior but I can not find any documentation about how Confluence search works with include macros. 

Can anyone confirm what the expected behavior is, and if there is a way to enable search to look inside a Page's include macros?

AnnWorley

The behavior is expected, and consistent with my testing of the Excerpt include and Include page macros. The page originally containing the content is found by the search but the page that is including the content from the original does not appear in searches.

Although expected, not everyone considers it optimal. Please vote or comment on this suggestion to follow the progress of the relevant ticket: Confluence search results should include content added to page via the {include} and {excerpt-include} macros