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  1. Atlassian Intelligence
  2. AI-368

Searching for external links does not work as expected

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    • Severity 3 - Minor
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      Issue Summary

      When searching for links in Confluence, no results are shown. The usage of wildcards or escaping characters in wildcard searches as suggested in our documentation does not work as expected. Here is the documentation:

      Confluence Search Syntax

      Searching for http://, https:// or any combination of those, will return all links present in your instance. Keep in mind that searching for http or https will return the links that are not secure or are secure, respectively.
      In HTTP

      In HTTPS

      Searching for http or http* returns the same results, even though a wildcard has been added.

      Also, as soon as the rest of the link is inserted (everything after ://), the page that contains the link is no longer shown in the results, with or without wildcards:

      Only Http

      Rest of the link with wildcard

      Steps to Reproduce

      1. Create a new page
      2. Insert an external link (example: https://mynewlink.com/guest)
      3. Publish the page
      4. Search for *mynewlink*, /.*mynewlink.*/, mynewlink or any other combination

      Expected Results

      The search results contain the page in which the link was placed.

      Actual Results

      No results are found

      Workaround

      Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available

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            [AI-368] Searching for external links does not work as expected

            pqz made changes -
            Component/s Original: XP - Content Search [ 61005 ]
            Component/s Original: Search - Core [ 46383 ]
            Component/s New: XP - Content Search [ 75299 ]
            Component/s New: Search - Core [ 75296 ]
            Key Original: CONFCLOUD-69818 New: AI-368
            QA Demo Status Original: Not Done [ 14330 ]
            QA Kickoff Status Original: Not Done [ 14234 ]
            Support reference count Original: 1
            Symptom Severity Original: Major [ 16131 ] New: Severity 3 - Minor [ 14432 ]
            Project Original: Confluence Cloud [ 18513 ] New: Atlassian Intelligence [ 23110 ]
            Matthew Hunter made changes -
            Resolution New: Timed out [ 10 ]
            Status Original: Short Term Backlog [ 12074 ] New: Closed [ 6 ]
            Matthew Hunter made changes -
            Labels Original: confirmed-bug core-experience link search search-result searching wildcard New: confirmed-bug core-experience link search search-result searching stale-bulk-close202311 wildcard
            Anna Zakharevych made changes -
            Labels Original: core-experience link search search-result searching wildcard New: confirmed-bug core-experience link search search-result searching wildcard
            Aniket Bhosale made changes -
            Remote Link New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 652141 ]
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            Epic Link Original: CONFDEV-61964 [ 1113279 ] New: CONFDEV-66894 [ 1456646 ]
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            Support reference count New: 1

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              drodrigues@atlassian.com Diego (Inactive)
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