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Implement Google Search Bar in Confluence Space

Patrick Voullié

Hey,

we are new in the Confluence-World. Sorry if this Question is allready answered - we had no results using the Knowledge base. We would like to create a Confluence-Space that is the Home landing Page for every employee. Is it possible to implement a Google Search Bar to our Space? This would really add some every day functionality to our space.

Kind regards and thanks in advance from germany

Patrick

Accepted answers

Thomas Schlegel

Do you know User Macros? Here is a small user macro, providing a google search field:

## @param 0:title=Länge des Eingabefeldes|type=enum|enumValues=short-field,medium-field,medium-long-field,long-field,full-width-field|default=long-field

<form action="http://www.google.com/search" class="aui" method="get" name="searchform" target="_blank">
<input autocomplete="on" class="text $param0" name="q" placeholder="Suche in Google" required="required" type="text">
</form>

Save this as a new user macro and put it on your page.

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Thomas Schlegel

Hi Patrick,

do you have Confluence Cloud or Server? The search functionality and user interface between these two are different, that's why I'm asking.

Patrick Voullié

Hi Thomas,

thank you for your fast reply. We are using Confluence on our Server.

Thomas Schlegel

Good. Of course, you have seen then the search field in the title bar. This is the main search functionality of Confluence. If you click in that field, you see your page history and if you type a fulltext search will be executed.

There is also a macro, you can use on your dashboard page. It is called "livesearch" or "Livesuche" in German. This macro can be parametrized, so that is only searching in certain spaces or pages with certain labels etc.

It looks like that:

There are also other apps on the marketplace for Confluence searching, but we don't use any of them:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=search

You have to try.

Patrick Voullié

Thank you Thomas, we will give it a try. Just to clarifiy my question: We want to search the web with Google like we usually do. This is not about searching in our Confluence-Database.

I'am probably looking for something like a Google-Search-Wiget.

Thomas Schlegel

Do you know User Macros? Here is a small user macro, providing a google search field:

## @param 0:title=Länge des Eingabefeldes|type=enum|enumValues=short-field,medium-field,medium-long-field,long-field,full-width-field|default=long-field

<form action="http://www.google.com/search" class="aui" method="get" name="searchform" target="_blank">
<input autocomplete="on" class="text $param0" name="q" placeholder="Suche in Google" required="required" type="text">
</form>

Save this as a new user macro and put it on your page.

Patrick Voullié

Thats more than I could have asked for. Thanks a lot Thomas - works fine.

Thomas Schlegel

That's great, @Patrick Voullié, you're welcome.

If you think, your question is answered, please accept the answer with the checksign. With such a marker, other users with similar topics can find answered questions more easy.

Viele Grüße aus Hamburg

Patrick Voullié

Thomas I dont want to overextend your helpfullness, but i have an additional question.

Is there a way to use your macro for Googlemaps search? I dont need that fancy solution with an embed map - the simple search bar with an extra tab opening showing the location I was looking for is more than enough.

Viele Grüße nach Hamburg

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