Is there a way to limit a search to parent pages?

[Stephanie Hurt]

Is there a way to limit a search to a CHILD SPACE (i.e., a parent page and all the pages below it)? I know of no way to do that. I realize we could create LABELS to help limit searches, but where labels haven't been created yet, that's a LOT of labels to create to do a search. We're hoping there's a simple way to say "Search this page and all the child pages below it" ... 

[Linh Pham_Ricksoft_Inc · Accepted solution]

Hi @Stephanie Hurt 

There are 2 ways I'd recommend:

1. Use Confluence advanced search, you'll be able to narrow down by parent page by filtering "Content under"

 

2. Essentially the same process, you can also insert the "page tree search" macro on a page, then users can directly search content within a page tree:

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Linh

[Stephanie Hurt]

Thanks so much.  I will try these out.

[Aron Gombas]

Confluence has a lesser-known structured query language called CQL.

Using CQL, you could search the descendants of the page with the ID=123 for the text fragment "foobar" using a query:

ancestor=123 and text ~ "foobar"

See the CQL documentation. This tool is extremely powerful!