Are there any plans for a browser extension to search Confluence? instead of having to click a confluence bookmark and then type something in the search box, it would be easier to be able to do that right away.
or am i missing something that already exists?
thanks
tobias
Hi Tobias,
On any site running Confluence if you right-click in the Confluence search box you'll get an option to:
I suspect there are similar options for IE and Opera as well, but I don't have these browsers at hand to check.
If you added the keyword "confluence", for example, you could then type "confluence<SPACE><your search term>", e.g. "confluence user macros" in the browser address bar and it will automatically search the Confluence site that you added.
Does that do what you want?
Andrew.
thanks andrew, i didn't know this was possible, and it is certainly helpful. however, is there no option to have a search with autocomplete on? in my experience, after a while and with many users it may become difficult to remember the exact page where you put something, and then autocomplete helps a lot.
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Hi Tobias,
I'm not aware of a way to add auto-complete to the standard keyword search in a browser, but it may be possible to write an extension or add-on to do this.
I did a quick search for existing extentions and add-ons for Chrome and Firefox and found the following:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/atlassian
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=atlassian&sort=name
but I don't think any of them quite do what you want - though the Atlassian History extension for Chrome is very useful for keeping track of which pages you visited in a site powered by an Atlassian application.
Andrew.
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To my delight, I found that this "just works" in Chrome:
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If it ever worked ... Today, six years later, the option refered by @tobias leenaert does NOT seem to work. I've just tried in Chrome (v. 64.0.3282.140) and Firefox (v. 58.0.1) on Windows 10 and I can't find the option under the right-click's contextual menu.
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Well it used to work, but you are right, it is gone. Could be a Firefox thing (they deprecated other features like WebDav with recent updates.
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Firefox still support OpenSearch metas. It would require Atlassian's developers to put back the metas & XML to allow this feature to work in major browsers.
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Still works in Chrome but I'm not seeing how to do this in Firefox.
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I would love to know also. It used to work for me "by default". I would type "con", <TAB>, and it would auto-complete to "search confluence" and then I would type in my search term. Fantastic functionality. Sadly, I cleared my cookies one day, and the functionality stopped -- I'm guessing that wasn't a coincidence.
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This worked fine for me. I suspect you need to be logged into the site before you try to search.
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Chrome users can also try this extension for searching Confluence. I add a keybinding so that the window pops open, it's an essential part of my workflow:
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This is an open source Chrome extension for adding a keybind and search bar option. It makes searching your team's Confluence very fast.
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I was able to get this to work in firefox by installing contextsearch extension and using this query as the template:
https://REPLACEME/dosearchsite.action?cql=siteSearch+~+%22{searchTerms}%22&queryString={searchTerms}
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