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Provide ability for additional attachment types in Advanced Search

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      Issue Summary

      Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments, which appears to include searching by extension type. (ref: Search for pages and posts)

      • Word
      • Text
      • PowerPoint
      • Excel
      • PDF
      • HTML

      For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

      Search for .mp4 attachments:

      It seems that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Searching for an attachment by file extension appears to only work with the file types listed above. Limiting to search title only has the same effect.

      Proposed Solution

      Allow Advanced Search to search additional attachment types.

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          Shannon S

            [AI-897] Provide ability for additional attachment types in Advanced Search

            SET Analytics Bot made changes -
            Support reference count New: 2
            pqz made changes -
            Component/s Original: XP - Content Search [ 61005 ]
            Component/s Original: Search - Advanced Search [ 61204 ]
            Component/s New: XP - Content Search [ 75299 ]
            Component/s New: Search - Core [ 75296 ]
            Key Original: CONFCLOUD-72176 New: AI-897
            QA Demo Status Original: Not Done [ 14330 ]
            QA Kickoff Status Original: Not Done [ 14234 ]
            Project Original: Confluence Cloud [ 18513 ] New: Atlassian Intelligence [ 23110 ]
            nmcginley made changes -
            Component/s New: XPC - Content Search [ 61005 ]
            nmcginley made changes -
            Component/s Original: Search - Indexing [ 46493 ]
            Component/s New: Search - Advanced Search [ 61204 ]

            Admin CCC added a comment -

            I hope well, there is a review of items before they reach a threshold of a certain number of votes. Because this one might be a very easy catch and an improvement in "the age of video". best, Dieter

            Admin CCC added a comment - I hope well, there is a review of items before they reach a threshold of a certain number of votes. Because this one might be a very easy catch and an improvement in "the age of video". best, Dieter
            Shannon S made changes -
            Description Original: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. This appears to include searching by extension type. (ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/])
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It seems that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Searching for an attachment by file extension appears to only work with the file types listed above. Limiting to search title only has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search additional attachment types.             		New: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments, which appears to include searching by extension type. (ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/])
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It seems that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Searching for an attachment by file extension appears to only work with the file types listed above. Limiting to search title only has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search additional attachment types.
            Shannon S made changes -
            Description Original: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. This appears to include searching by extension type. (ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/])
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It seems that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Searching for an attachment by file extension appears to only work with the file types listed above. Limiting to search title only has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search for additional attachment types.             		New: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. This appears to include searching by extension type. (ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/])
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It seems that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Searching for an attachment by file extension appears to only work with the file types listed above. Limiting to search title only has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search additional attachment types.
            Shannon S made changes -
            Description Original: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. Ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/]
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It appears that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Limiting to _search title only_ has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search for additional attachment types.             		New: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. This appears to include searching by extension type. (ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/])
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It seems that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Searching for an attachment by file extension appears to only work with the file types listed above. Limiting to search title only has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search for additional attachment types.
            Shannon S made changes -
            Description Original: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. Ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/]
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It appears that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Limiting to _search title only_ has the same effect.

            Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search for additional attachment types.             		New: h3. Issue Summary

            Advanced search returns results from only certain types of attachments. Ref: [Search for pages and posts|https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/search-for-pages-and-posts/]
             * Word
             * Text
             * PowerPoint
             * Excel
             * PDF
             * HTML

            For example, search attachments with the .pdf extension:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-19-37-437.png|width=301,height=178!

            Search for .mp4 attachments:

            !image-2021-05-20-15-20-21-387.png|width=299,height=176!

            It appears that Confluence doesn't treat the extension as part of the filename. Limiting to _search title only_ has the same effect.
            h3. Proposed Solution

            Allow Advanced Search to search for additional attachment types.
            Shannon S created issue -

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              smackie@atlassian.com Shannon S
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