Show how to use document properties to filter on searches.
The Problem
If you search for a term like "Role" or "Stakeholder" you'll get plenty of hits. This is because the Core Doctypes provide doctypes with this name. For each space there may be a home page and an index page for each of these doctypes and these pages also contain the string "Role" or "Stakeholder".
In addition to those, there are also home pages and index pages for the corresponding type doctype, like "Role Type" and "Stakeholder Type". So these pages will also clutter your search result.
The result set above shows a number of home pages for Role Types.
Filter Navigation Pages
Confluence does not distinguish between destination pages and navigation pages. There is only the concept of a page.
The projectdoc Toolbox provides navigation pages by the doctype named docsection.
This makes it easy to remove these pages from the search results!
Instead of
"Role"
you would type the following:
"Role" -Doctype: docsection
Now Confluence will only return destination pages related to "Role" and remove all navigation pages from the result set.
The Doctype property is almost like any other property. The same way you filter on the Doctype property you could chose any other property or combination of properties to put constraints on a search.
"Role" +Severity: High +Doctype: task
