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Improve Advanced Search in Confluence UI with CQL

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      Current Situation

      The current Confluence Advanced Search provides users with limited fields for them to look for pages/spaces. It would be useful to provide users with the ability to configure the fields that they're looking for, instead of providing default fixed ones.

      Screenshot: Users cannot choose which field they'd like to search for, besides these default ones

      Proposed Solution

      A suggestion, to improve this search would be to provide users with the ability to use CQL (Advanced searching using CQL) via the UI.

      This would provide users with the same flexibility as Jira to search for pages, spaces, labels.

      e.g. User would like to look for the creator of a page, however, the field Creator is not present on advanced search and using the default Contributors field also returns pages that were edited by said user, making this field not particularly useful for this situation.

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            [AI-584] Improve Advanced Search in Confluence UI with CQL

            mb added a comment -

            Workaround

            Use CQL Search Macro in Confluence Cloud

            Build a query using terms like the ones mentioned in https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql/

            E.g.: creator="<PROFILE-ID>" AND type="page" order by created DESC

            mb added a comment - Workaround Use CQL Search Macro in Confluence Cloud Build a query using terms like the ones mentioned in https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql/ E.g.: creator="<PROFILE-ID>" AND type="page" order by created DESC

            Elli Baker added a comment -

            Please re-introduce CQL. Very needed

            Elli Baker added a comment - Please re-introduce CQL. Very needed

            mb added a comment -

            Why was this feature removed from Confluence Cloud? I know that I used to have the feature to search by creator via CQL etc.

            mb added a comment - Why was this feature removed from Confluence Cloud? I know that I used to have the feature to search by creator via CQL etc.

            Santosh Behara added a comment -

            This feature will help filtering the documents on the basis of creation date.

            Santosh Behara added a comment - This feature will help filtering the documents on the basis of creation date.

            hr_suzuki added a comment -

            +1

            hr_suzuki added a comment - +1

            Dylan Mayer added a comment -

            To expand on this, I would like to be able to search pages by create date. I would also like to always see the number of results created by my search, which does not always appear now (as of a few weeks ago, it no longer appears)

            Dylan Mayer added a comment - To expand on this, I would like to be able to search pages by create date. I would also like to always see the number of results created by my search, which does not always appear now (as of a few weeks ago, it no longer appears)

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              halegra Helton A. (Inactive)
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