Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
"Did you mean"
When you perform a full search, Confluence may offer you an alternative spelling of
your search query. This alternative spelling will appear next to the words
Did you
mean
. Click on the link to accept the suggestion. Some of the key features offered
with this functionality are as follows:
• Confluence uses a bundled dictionary and words gathered from your own
content. This means Confluence can make suggestions for your own jargon
that may not appear in a standard dictionary.
• Confluence will favor words that appear more often in your content before
words from the dictionary.
• Confluence may offer suggestions with incorrect spellings. This happens
when the incorrect spelling occurs many times within your content. This is
intentionally as the purpose of the "Did you mean" feature is to help find
your content, not to correct your spelling.
• A Confluence administrator has to turn on the "Did you mean" index in the
Administration Console.
Filtering results
The search screen, as shown on the previous page, appears when you do your first
search. By default, Confluence will search all content in all spaces and attachments.
You can filter this using the filter options on the right side of the screen.
Using the filter options, you can filter results based on the following categories:
•
Where
: This restricts your results to a particular space or a group of spaces
(favorites, personal, or global)
•
What
: This restricts your results to a particular content type (pages, blog
posts, comments, and so on)
•
When
: This restricts your results to the content modified within a given
period of time (today, yesterday, last week, and so on)
•
Who
: This restricts your results to the content last modified by a
particular user
Don't forget to click on the
Filter
button after specifying your filter. If you use more
than one filter, Confluence will filter based on all those filters. Use the
Clear Filter
link to remove all filters and return the full result set.
