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Hello there, @Thomas Beals ! Nice to see new people keep joining our community. I hope you like it here!
As I understand, you need to perform searches based on specific Confluence fields, such as the contributor field.
Having the ability to refine our searches can be of great value so results are pinned to only a few items. It makes life easier, does not it?
Confluence does provide power so we can do that with the Search Fields. Search Fields and Search Filters may look similar, but they are not the same thing. We can take a look here:
In the pages I linked above, we can check both the list of Search Filters and the list of Search Fields.
We can take a better look at how to use Search Fields here, in our Syntax Documentation:
The contributor value is a default Search Filter. We can use it within the Confluence search via the selection of filter values. If we are in Confluence Server, we have access to those fields in both the normal search and advanced search:
Normal Search:
Advanced Search:
In Confluence Cloud, we have this available in Advanced Search:
If you need a search that is even more powerful than that, we could start by taking a look here:
The contributor Search Filter has no real equivalent for us to use in the Search List side. We need to either use the Search Filters or resort to complex advanced CQL searches, as described in “Advanced Searching Using CQL” pages.
For short:
The contributor value is a Search Filter and can not be specified within the search box, we must use the filter list. What we can use within the search box are Search Fields.
I hope this shines some light into your path, Thomas! Looking forward to your reply.
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