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)

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.

You can also search all the children and descendants pages under the Requirements section by using the ancestor field.

• The $$id$$ is the id of the current page

Pages within "project" spaces

There are a few ways

1. If you know the list of spaces in advance, you can provide them as a list

   
   
   

2. 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

References

• https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-server-rest-api/advanced-searching-using-cql

• Convenient Search with placeholders