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Metadata search does not work

Metadata search does not work

Owned by Almuth Boehme [Communardo]
Last updated: Jan 06, 2025 by Lorenzo Manfredini
1 min read

Problem

When I use the Confluence search to search for metadata, I cannot find results for a certain filter. When I look for different metadata it works though.

Solution

The search term might contain a so-called "stop word". Confluence will ignore those common words (stop words), including 'and', 'the', 'or', and more, even if they are included within double quotes in order to improve the quality of the search results.

 Confluence uses the search engine Lucene. At the moment the following words are defined as stop words:

... , "about", "after", "all", "also", "an", "and", "another", "any", "are", "as", "at", "be", "because", "been", "before", "being", "between", "both", "but", "by", "came", "can", "come", "could", "did", "do", "does", "each", "else", "for", "from", "get", "got", "has", "had", "he", "have", "her", "here", "him", "himself", "his", "how","if", "in", "into", "is", "it", "its", "just", "like", "make", "many", "me", "might", "more", "most", "much", "must", "my", "never", "now", "of", "on", "only", "or", "other", "our", "out", "over", "re", "said", "same", "see", "should", "since", "so", "some", "still", "such", "take", "than", "that", "the", "their", "them", "then", "there", "these", "they", "this", "those", "through", "to", "too", "under", "up", "use", "very", "want", "was", "way", "we", "well", "were", "what", "when", "where", "which", "while", "who", "will", "with", "would", "you", "your", ...

(please refer to the Lucene documentation for a full list of stop words)

Check if your indexing language is set to English, and if so, change it to a different language. Afterwards, perform a re-index.

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