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Suggestion
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Resolution: Answered
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Version 2.2.10, standalone on Linux.
NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
Wikipedia (Mediawiki) search has both a "Search" and a "Go" button. Search works a lot like the Confluence search, but Go looks for a single page with an exact title match (aided a lot by user creation of redirect pages) and takes the user to that page if it exists. This is the biggest frustration our users have. Salespeople and others looking for glossary-type pages want to type, say, "Postgres" and have a definitive Postgres page returned that defines the term. I asked about this on the forums a while back, so here's a possible (very) high-level spec that I think would work:
- Add a Go button to the main search box in front of the Search button, and give the Go button the focus so it's used by default.
- When the user clicks "Go" instead of Search, the search is assumed to be a title search and a request for an exact phrase match, and to be a Pages search only.
- If there is a single result, the system immediately redirects the user to the page that matched the search.
- If there are multiple pages with the same title and one of them is in the same space the user searched from, the system redirects the user to that page.
- If there are multiple pages with the same title and none are is the space the user search from, or if the user searched from the dashboard, show the regular search results page.
- If there are no exact titles matches, execute a regular search and show the result. Ideally this also would default to searching the current space, which I believe is another request.
People would go nuts over this - guaranteed! Please add it ...
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CONFSERVER-7789 Search yielding an exact title match should redirect to the desired page, like Wikipedia
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