Find content in a space
Trying to find a specific page, live doc, or whiteboard is hard when you remember some things about it but you don’t remember what it’s called. Searching for it might seem challenging.
When you are in a space, you have a couple of ways of finding the right item.
Search for item’s titles in the space
To search in a space:
Enter some of the item’s title in the Search by title field, located in the space’s sidebar. When entering multiple words, the operator used is OR. Enter
product requirements, and the results will containproductORrequirements.Press Enter
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You can use the Confluence search syntax in the search field to really focus your search results.
Hover over titles to see cards
Sometimes an item’s title just isn’t enough to pick the right one. When you hover over an item in the sidebar of a space, you can see more details about it — like when it was updated last and who owns the item.
The actions you can take from the item cards in the sidebar include:
Jump directly to edit
Star the item to save it for later
Sharing and watching items aren’t available here.
How to turn off hover cards
Seeing cards on hover is something each user can control, so if you don’t find this useful, you can turn it off in your user settings. In user settings, uncheck the content card hover option.
View items differently
Navigating through a structured content tree is useful to some people some of the time. But if you aren’t familiar with a space or if the content tree gets overgrown, it can be more challenging to find the right item.
To make the list of items fit you, you can switch the view from the tree view to a flat list that is sorted as you want. Once you select your view in a space, it stays that way until you change it.
Tree — view the items in their standard hierarchical structure
My visits — view the items you accessed most recently at the top of a flat list
Last updated — view the items created or edited most recently by anyone in the space at the top of a flat list
Title - A to Z — view the items in a flat alphabetical list, starting with content containing numbers and special characters
Reordering items in the sidebar using drag and drop is only available in the default tree view. If you need to reorder items, switch back to the default view.
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