Search Tips

Contents:

You can apply the following tips to improve your search results.

Search Tools

Search	Scope
Left nav bar	Examine content in the current page and those below it.
Top search bar or Left search bar	Search current area of docs.
Application search	In the application, click the Help icon () in the menu bar and select Search Help.

Documentation pages are augmented with page labels, which provide a method for categorization of content.

Tip: Page labels are listed as Popular Categories on the home page of your documentation.

Use the following syntax in the search bar to look for content based on page labels:

labelText:My_Favorite_Label

NOTE: Some words, such as the and of are ignored, since they are not indexed.

Single-character and multi-character wildcards are supported:
```
dimension
dimension?
*dimension*
d?mensi?n
```
Add a tilde (~) to search for terms if you are unsure of the spelling:
```
dimenshan~
```
Use double quotes for greater precision:
```
"happy cat"
```
You can use logical operators in your search terms:
```
beans OR cheese
beans AND cheese
beans NOT cheese
```
You can group terms:
```
(beans or cheese) NOT rice
```

Confluence search is built on the Lucene search engine. For more information, see http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/15/lucene.html?page=2.