Search content of a single space in confluence

[Raju KC]

How to search content of a single space in confluence that uses zen foundation theme

[MatthewC · Accepted solution]

you could create your own search box, either using the HTML macro or if you want to make it a little more usable, a user macro. you then just drop in {search-current-space} in the page.

## Macro title: Search Current Space
## Macro Name: search-current-space
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: No Macro Body
## Output: HTML
##
## Developed by: Matthew Cobby
## Date created: 26/07/2011
## Installed by: Matthew Cobby

<form method="POST" action="/dosearchsite.action" name="searchForm" style="padding: 1px; margin: 1px">
<input type="hidden" name="quickSearch" value="true" />
<input type="hidden" name="searchQuery.spaceKey" value="$space.getKey()" />
<input type="text" accessKey="s" name="searchQuery.queryString" size="50"/>
<input type="submit" value="Search Space"/>
</form>

what you are trying to do is create an HTML form in the page like this:

<form method="POST" action="/dosearchsite.action" name="searchForm" style="padding: 1px; margin: 1px">
<input type="hidden" name="quickSearch" value="true" />
<input type="hidden" name="searchQuery.spaceKey" value="**SPACEKEY OF CURRENT SPACE**" />
<input type="text" accessKey="s" name="searchQuery.queryString" size="25"/>
<input type="submit" value="Search Space"/>
</form>

if you wanted, you could add extra parameters to the macro to search types of content, date ranges, formatting rules etc

[Deleted user]

That's true and yours is a much cooler solution, Matthew. But can OnDemand users create their own macros (or install their own plugins)?

[MatthewC]

ahh, my bad. I thought they now allowed some user macros but obviously not, it's still a restricted function. However, if you use the documentation theme, there is an option to restrict the search box in the top right to the default space

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Searching+Confluence#SearchingConfluence-SearchOptionsWhenUsingtheDocumentationTheme

You can then do it on a space by space basis.

[Deleted user]

You could reate a 'Search this space' landing page and add a search box macro to the page

Note, I don't know if the macros still exist in 4.x -- but that's how I would do it in 3.5x

Update: Sorry, I should have said a "Page Tree Search" macro. You have to specify the home page.

[MatthewC]

the only problem is that it misses out a lot of content, it won't search anything not under the home page, or other content like blog posts