Useful scenarios with Canned Search for Confluence
Introduction
This is a collection of some useful examples that Canned Search for Confluence for your users.
Scenarios
View blog posts created in the last 5 days within this space and sorted by creation date
You can list the blog posts created in the previous 5 days in chronological order (oldest first)
type = blogpost AND created > startOfDay("-5d") order by created asc |
Execute search only for meeting minutes/requirements/How-to
The following CQL will only search for Meeting Minutes containing the given search text. Meeting Minutes are pages with Title containing Minutes or labelled with minutes.
text ~ $$query$$ AND (label = minutes OR title ~ Minutes ) |
You can also search all the children and descendants pages under the Requirements section by using the ancestor field.
ancestor = $$id$$ AND text ~ $$query$$The $$id$$ is the id of the current page
Pages within "project" spaces
There are a few ways
If you know the list of spaces in advance, you can provide them as a list
Alternatively, if your space follows a naming convention, you can select those spaces by their title. The example below assumes all the project space will contains "Project" in their space name.
Comments which I was mentioned in, and are updated this week
You can find out comments that you are "mentioned" last week
Other Tips
You can create a "Canned Search Page" in your Confluence with a list of canned search macros added for your users to do power searching