Sidebar Search in a confluence Space

[Deleted user]

Is it possible to have a sidebar search box within the space.

The space is pretty huge with a lots of pages. Hence the page tree is also bit complicated.

I believe a search bar above the page tree could be of huge help in this!!

Could this be attained with configuration in the look and feel?

Thanks in Advance!!

[Sattesh M · Accepted solution]

Hello Solomon, you can indeed do this.
We just have to add the Livesearch macro to the sidebar using Wiki markup.

• Livesearch Macro

{livesearch:spaceKey=all spaces|size=medium|placeholder=Search}

To enable for all spaces, add the line above into the Sidebar section of the Sidebar, header and footer admin page.

• (ConfluenceBaseURL)/admin/custompagecontent.action

If you would like to add it to certain Spaces only, add it to the Sidebar, header and footer for that specific Space.

• (ConfluenceBaseURL)/spaces/custompagecontent.action?key=<SPACEKEY>
• Replace <SPACEKEY> with the Space key of the specific Space.

Hope that helps! :)

Cheers,
Sattesh

[Deleted user]

Hello Sarah,

The answer is perfect! I have implemented it.

Thank you very much for your response! Really appreciated.

Thanks,

Solomon Cherian

[Matt Flaherty]

Works great! To clarify, the wiki markup with "spaceKey=all spaces" can be modified to restrict results to a single space by using the appropriate space key in place of "all spaces". This can be done whether the macro is placed globally or within a single space.

[Michelle Rau good]

This works great and I like to put "search only this space" as a placeholder, to clarify that it will return only results from the current space. So it looks something like this:

{livesearch:additional=none|id=LiveSearch01|placeholder=Search only this wiki|spaceKey=Mywiki|size=small}

[Carla W_]

Works like a charm. I also wanted to search just pages and show an exerpt.

{livesearch:spaceKey=mySpace|size=medium|placeholder=Search mySpace|type=page|additional=page excerpt}