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Restore the ability to search for Site Spaces (exclude Personal Spaces)

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      This is not so much a "new feature" as much as a plea to restore an old feature.

      In Confluence 5.1 (and earlier?) you used to be able to limit a search to Site Spaces ... i.e. exclude Personal Spaces. (There was also the option to search only Personal Spaces, but this was not nearly as useful.)

      Somewhere between Confluence 5.1 and 5.5, Site Spaces was removed as an option.

      This was a very important feature because pages in Personal Spaces have a bad habit of bubbling to the top of search results, and they are rarely the desired result. Being able to simply exclude those pages, caused an immediate improvement to the search results.

      In fact, I contend it should have been – or been settable as – the default behavior.

            [AI-795] Restore the ability to search for Site Spaces (exclude Personal Spaces)

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            Component/s Original: Search - Core [ 46383 ]
            Component/s New: Search - Core [ 75296 ]
            Key Original: CONFCLOUD-35188 New: AI-795
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.6 [ 67744 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.5 [ 67726 ]
            Project Original: Confluence Cloud [ 18513 ] New: Atlassian Intelligence [ 23110 ]

            Marini Marini added a comment - - edited

            Hi 4555db5a5f8f,

            When you click Spaces -> View all spaces, do you see a built-in filter names Communal?

            Marini Marini added a comment - - edited Hi 4555db5a5f8f , When you click Spaces -> View all spaces , do you see a built-in filter names Communal ?

            Gonchik Tsymzhitov added a comment -

            Hi Marini!
            I have tried to make in that way no luck.

            Gonchik Tsymzhitov added a comment - Hi Marini! I have tried to make in that way no luck.

            Marini Marini added a comment - - edited

            Hello everyone,

            That feature is back in Cloud! Refer to https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/A-refreshed-Space-directory-for-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1530440.Check the Jacob Brunson's comment on Dec 01, 2020.

            Apparently, Atlassian is trying to move away from the "Site" terminology. So, if you want to view only "Site Space", select "Communal" from the filter list.

            As usual, the Confluence dev team is very slow in resolving bugs/suggestions tickets even after they already fixed them.

            Marini Marini added a comment - - edited Hello everyone, That feature is back in Cloud! Refer to https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/A-refreshed-Space-directory-for-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1530440 .Check the Jacob Brunson's comment on Dec 01, 2020. Apparently, Atlassian is trying to move away from the "Site" terminology. So, if you want to view only "Site Space", select "Communal" from the filter list. As usual, the Confluence dev team is very slow in resolving bugs/suggestions tickets even after they already fixed them.

            Darryl Lee added a comment -

            Wait. You removed this on Cloud? C'mon... how are we supposed to move to Cloud if you keep removing functionality? Oh wait....

            Darryl Lee added a comment - Wait. You removed this on Cloud? C'mon... how are we supposed to move to Cloud if you keep removing functionality? Oh wait....
            Elaine H. (Inactive) made changes -
            Labels Original: affects-server search search-result New: affects-server cc-findability search search-filters
            Katherine Yabut made changes -
            Workflow Original: JAC Suggestion Workflow [ 3419643 ] New: JAC Suggestion Workflow 3 [ 3604375 ]
            Monique Khairuliana (Inactive) made changes -
            Workflow Original: Confluence Workflow - Public Facing v3 [ 2251421 ] New: JAC Suggestion Workflow [ 3419643 ]
            Status Original: Needs Verification [ 10004 ] New: Gathering Interest [ 11772 ]

            RaeRo added a comment -

            +1

            We're starting to use other tools since personal spaces clutter up the search results and our teams have decided they don't want to store information there. 

            RaeRo added a comment - +1 We're starting to use other tools since personal spaces clutter up the search results and our teams have decided they don't want to store information there. 

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