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What is CQL?

CQL is an extremely powerful search possibility in Confluence. It is a structured query language which allows flexibly searching for pages, blog posts and other types of content.

If you are not familiar with it yet, we strongly recommend that you learn more about CQL.

How to use CQL in the Better Content Archiving app?

The Better Content Archiving app heavily relies on CQL. These queries serve as the fundamental building blocks of its core features. There are two main areas of functionality in the app where CQL is used:

  1. In schemes, to assign statuses, send notifications, and execute automations.
  2. In a Content Status List macro, to specify the list of contents to display on a page or blog post.

Search for content by status with CQL

The Better Content Archiving app makes the content status, and several other CQL fields, available for CQL searches. You can easily build advanced searches against these fields:

Also, you can check the field values for any particular page or blog post in the CQL Fields tab of the Content Status Indicator:

Note that the same values are presented in a more user-friendly way in other parts of the user interface. You need to visit this tab only to see the precise field names or when troubleshooting searches.

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