Customizing of search results ranking?

[Stephan Waldschmidt]

Hi,

is it possible to customize the ranking of search results in Confluence, e. g. to change the Weighting of Content Types?

Best regards,

S. Waldschmidt

[NielsJ · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately there is no such possibility in Confluence administration. A similar feature request is still open: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-15619

You have to write a plugin that provides a lucene-boosting-strategy module: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Lucene+Boosting+Strategy+Module

[Danielle Zhu]

There is a feature request for adjusting search ranking: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-15619 You may want to add a comment there.

[Benjamin Slade]

Even though this is an ancient discussion, it looks like it still hasn't been implemented, so I'll post my comment here.

When i enter something into the search field, the popup search options/results includes an "Advanced search" option. Under the "Advanced search", there's a "Content Type" option. Any possibility of adding additional content types? Eg., "Help pages", "FAQ pages", "Standards & Policies pages", etc

[Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]]

By using an external search appliance integrated (indexing your Confluence data), you can get finer control on your weighting and search content algorithms.

The way I look at it, Confluence is a wiki and really good at that. Really really good.

Atlassian does not also try to be a Search Appliance corp - to which there are numerous whole companies dedicated to that problem in and of itself.

AppFusions has worked on a few solutions in this area - contact us at info[at]appfusions[dot]com for more info, if interested.