This doesn't work with Forge macros.

The workaround we have found is to use the REST APIs

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-search/#api-wiki-rest-api-search-get

specifying a CQL

macro=macro_name

It's insane to me that this has been removed in Cloud. This is a crucial feature and the fact that it is not available by now is seriously concerning.

Is there any information, workarounds or otherwise ideas on how to make this possible? It's a mission critical feature for us.

Hi everyone,

I am one of those users that were forced to move to Confluence Cloud when Confluence Server was EOS in February. I find it very strange that this issue was changed from bug to feature request. It should have been fixed immediately!

Being able to perform advanced searches are vital when working with documentation. It is not some fancy "nice to have" feature - it is a fundamental feature that should have been available before the Confluence Server was EOS-ed. This is especially important since several of the macros that we used in Confluence Server are not available in Confluence Cloud or is not yet being supported by one of the Atlassian partners. When I can't search for a macro, I have to manually go through each page, looking for the macro in question - and I am maintaining documentation with thousands of pages!

Please fix this. 

Gjertrud

6dfd011db329 Thank you for the additional details. The link you shared with us, https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html, is a Data Center and Server guide, rather than a Confluence Cloud guide. As osolomennykov@atlassian.com mentioned the macroName:<macro-name> search syntax was available in DC/Server, but is not offered in Cloud. 

We have updated the description on this ticket and have converted it from a bug to a feature request, requesting to have the same syntax that was available in DC/Server in Cloud.

Please let us know if you have any questions about this change.

Thank you,
Tina B.

Hi

Well, it clearly does not work "exactly as described"

Here is the results for my cloud instance (and I do have many pages that use the Table Of Contents macro)

https://recordit.co/SHtQYqd3XY

And no, this is not "instance specific"... 

Alex

Hi 6dfd011db329 

Thanks for the update. I can assume that the Search works exactly as described in it's documentation here: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/confluence-search-syntax/ . As you can see, first of all, this doc is for Confluence cloud, and the second thing is that there is no mention that Confluence Cloud uses the same mechanism and syntax for macros search as DC Confluence does. Also, to be fair, even if you try to do the same search as you described, you will have pages found where the TOC macro was used.

Thank you,

Oleksandr.

It is very simple actually. For example...

I hope you are familiar with a Table Of Contents macro in Confluence, the macro name for it is "toc"

Try to make a search macroName:toc in server/dc and on cloud versions of Confluence. Confluence server/DC lists pages where this macro is used, while Confluence cloud does some weird search

Hi 6dfd011db329 

Could you provide us with a video or exact steps on how it reproduces for you? Unfortunately, we weren't able to reproduce this issue yet in all our Confluence Cloud environments.

Thank you

Oleksandr

Hi Oleksandr

No, this is exactly about the Confluence cloud... and the regression in comparison to server/DC where you can easily search for macroName from within a search bar

Alex