How to search within a single channel?
Asked by Clint:

Hi all, I'm new here, so if I missed a 101 somewhere, point me over to that ;)

I'm trying to search for terms within, say, the Confluence community channel. If I use the federated search (search bar at top-right of UI) it returns results but I can't tell which product/group a result belongs to (until I actually view the article).

Any help would be appreciated.

Clinton


Answers:
author: Monique vdB
body: [@Clint](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3538128), as one workaround you can add "\&location=category:NAME" to your search URL (this is [mentioned in the FAQ](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/help/faqpage) so you can find it in the future). For example, this search should get you "sharepoint" results from the Confluence collection only:

[https://community.atlassian.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false\&allow_punctuation=false\&q=sharepoint\&location=category:c](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&q=sharepoint)onfluence

comments: author: Clint
body: Hi [@Monique vdB](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/786286) That's great thanks for letting me know!

Just a tip for anyone even slightly less web-aware than I am:

1. Perform your search first (top-right of the page)
2. After you get the results page, add "\&location=category:NAME" to the end of the URL (replacing 'NAME' with the channel name: Jira, Trello, etc.)

\[Sorry, over-explaining is an occupational hazard\]

Clint


author: Monique vdB
body: We have added this ability! There is now a search bar on every collection home page that searches within the collection. ?

![Screenshot 2023-05-24 at 4.01.19 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/259404iA4C7FFDFDD07E025/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-05-24 at 4.01.19 PM.png")


author: Kevan Lin
body: This is a great suggestion [@Clint](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3538128) ! Unfortunately, this currently not a supported feature. As one of the UX designers working on the community specifically, I wanted to ask you a follow-up question. If you had a magic wand, could you walk me through the ideal scenario on how something like would work?

comments: author: Clint
body: Hi Kevan, sure. I gave it a bit of thought last week so it's fresh in my mind.

I was looking for strategic content around how to use Confluence for my work (authoring and content management) and specifically around how others might have migrated from Word + SharePoint (to Confluence).

I looked first through the public website (Confluence features, capabilities, etc). I didn't find anything that spoke clearly to the value proposition of migrating so I came over to forums. I tried 2 things: Federated search (as per my post) and Search Alerts.

In both approaches I used search terms similar to the following:

+ Word (massive result set as "word" is a commonly used word, my focus was MS-Word)

+ CMS, structured authoring,

+ Content (also a big result set)

3 UI options IMO:

1- add a channel selector in Settings\>Search Terms configuration; OR

2- See idea2 (attached), adding another navigation activity (search).

3- See idea3 (attached), adding a search filter to a results set.

Thanks for listening and good luck with it!


author: Clint
body: ![idea2 confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66290i2AE7094406856DCA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "idea2 confluence.png")![idea3 confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66291i2771B8BC91CFE1AE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "idea3 confluence.png")


author: Kevan Lin
body: This is awesome! Thank you [@Clint](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3538128) for spending the time to help us improve experiences for not just you but others who use the community to learn more about Atlassian products. I'll be adding this to a heap of improvements to look into further. Thanks.

In terms of your search for migrating from Word + SharePoint to Confluence, where are you in your journey with that? You may want to create a **new** **question** in the [Confluence collection](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence/ct-p/confluence) as someone there might be able to help you out with any specific questions around migration.


author: Clint
body: Hi Kevan, the potential migration is still on the backburner, just trying to get a few urgent release docs out.

I'll do as you suggest, put out a question into the ether. That way if anyone has experiences and respond in the meantime, I'll be ready to take that up in a few weeks. Thanks for that!


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