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Comala Document Management adds several new filters to Confluence search, allowing you to quickly locate workflow-managed content.

Info

This feature requires Confluence 5.8 or above.

Adding filters

Navigate to the Confluence search page by typing something in the search box at the top of the page, then hit the Enter key.

Look for the Add a filter link in the sidebar and click it.

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Type "work" or "workflow" to list options for Comala Document Management workflow-managed content filters

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Choose the workflow-managed content filter required and a search item to filter your search.

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 You can add as many filters as you want.

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Here's an example of several filters in use.

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Those filters would have the following effect.

Workflow

Approver is (Elle or Matilde

Approver is (Elle or Matilde Sipes)

and

Workflow Approval

Assignee is Matilde

Assignee is Matilde Sipes

and

Workflow

State is Approved

State is Approved

and

Workflow State Change was on Any date

Available filters

Include Page
CQL Fields
CQL Fields

Search results

The Confluence search only indexes the latest versions of content, so the search results will always show the latest version regardless of workflow state.

If you are using Same-space publishing, which distinguishes between "Published" and "Draft" versions of content

  • the search results will continue to show the latest version

  • but content excerpts will be removed if that version is not published

This will happen regardless of whether you use the workflow search filters or not.

If this is a problem, use Different-space publishing or Remote-space publishing instead.(warning)

 If you are using metadata values created with the Comala Document Management 

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 macro, these are only indexed by Confluence and appear in the Confluence Search if the Comala Metadata app is installed.

See also

Atlassian documentation

Developer Guides