Searching Confluence and Sharepoint Content (v 1.0)

The SharePoint Connector for Confluence is designed to allow you to find your content, no matter which system it was written in. The goal is to make searching return the same set of relevant results from across your company, no matter which system you are using.

You don't need to do anything differently. With the SharePoint Connector for Confluence installed, you can search normally. By default, all searches performed in SharePoint will return content from both the Confluence wiki and Sharepoint. The results will be ordered by relevance, regardless of which system they are from. When using the search box in Confluence, all searches will be automatically directed to SharePoint, and will also show the same set of results from both systems.

Note that in SharePoint your search scope cannot be "This Site" or "This List".  Typically there is a Search Site created that is used for enterprise search as shown in the screen shot to the right.

For more details on how to configure search see SharePoint Search Configuration

If you are having problems, check out Troubleshooting SharePoint Search.

On the Confluence side, search integration consists of modifying the search link to have a dropdown that enables searching Confluence only (going to a Confluence search results page) or showing search results from both SharePoint and Confluence (going to a MOSS search results page). This update is enabled by using the SharePoint theme for a space resulting in a search box like the one shown below. This theme is available when installing the SharePoint plugin within Confluence.

If you want to customize this integration, see How to incorporate the SharePoint theme into another custom theme.