How to search in child pages from parent page

[Praveen V]

From ParentPage I have have hierarchy of two levels. These are for tracking inventory. All the child pages(leaf) contain a table with device and username (@xyz). I want to have a method to search if one particular user is using any of the devices in child pages.

Inventory(Parent)--> Type of Device(1st level childpage)-->ListOfDevices&Users(2ndlevel childpage).

[Fabienne Gerhard · Accepted solution]

Hi @Praveen V - don't know if I'm getting you right - did you check out the Page Tree Search Macro? 

This should work out perfect - put it on Parent Page and search for user. It's set automatically on parent page as root page. 

[Praveen V]

Page Tree Search Macro is just returning Child Pages if search keywords are matching with Page name

[Praveen V]

Its working if I give exact userId. But not with @User.

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Hi @Praveen V - did you try setting the filter 'Mentioning User' after the first result?

 

This should give the wanted result

[Hua Soon SIM _Akeles_]

We have simplified searching with Canned Search for Confluence to allow contextual searching anytime anywhere. With Search in Child/Descendents/Space menu options, you can save the effort to edit the pages to add search macros.

Check out our guide (How to search within a group of pages) for detailed steps

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Hi @Praveen V - sorry but that's not true. It's a perfect full working search which just gives you back a result according your Ancestors ID AND your search text - it leads you to a Result site where you are also able to filter your results.