# Save a Confluence search as a report

To save a Confluence search in Capable Search, build the search, select the save button in the filter bar, type a name and select **Create**. A search saved inside a space goes to that space's **Space searches**; one saved from the global Capable Search page goes to **Global searches**, where other people can open it too.

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## Before you start

| **You need**             | **Why**                                                                                                                               |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Capable Search installed | The app is part of Capable Search for Confluence and the Capable Suite.                                                               |
| Permission to add pages  | Saving to a space needs permission to create content in that space. Global searches need the same in the space Capable keeps them in. |

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## Steps

1. Open Capable Search: select **Capable Search** in the space sidebar or the Apps menu (in the Suite, **Capable**, then **Search**).
2. Select **New search**.
3. Add filters, columns and a sort order until the table shows what you want.
4. Select the save button at the right of the filter bar. Its tooltip reads **Save search as**.
5. In **Name**, type a name of at least three characters. The line above shows where it will be saved.
6. Select **Create**.

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## What happens next

The search appears under **Space searches** or **Global searches** with the number of pages it matches. To change it later, open it, make your changes and select **Save search**. That changes it for everyone, including every page that shows it in a macro. Choose **Save as** from the same button to make a copy instead.

Names can use letters, numbers, spaces and `- , . _ ! ? / ( )`.

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## Related

### [Working with saved searches](https://help.gocapable.com/search/working-with-saved-searches.html)

Save, Save as and scope.

### [Show a live Confluence search on a page](https://help.gocapable.com/search/show-a-live-confluence-search-on-a-page.html)

Put it on a page.

### [Saved searches](https://help.gocapable.com/search/saved-searches.html)

How saved searches work.

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_Save it once, share it always._