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Microsoft Teams - search my own chat history
longnxUse the search feature and filter appropriately?
https://www.marksgroup.net/blog/microsoft-teams-global-search-filtering/
Long Nguyễn Xuân apart from this, even if you have a match, it's also rather difficult to scroll back months to get the context for your search result.
Chat search only gives you the single matching message instead of scrolling back to the point in time of the chat.
If you're dealing with folks
who
type
separate messages
in staccato
fashion
the search feature becomes useless for chat.
is there a way around scrolling back months in the chat timeline for half an hour to get to an old message? thanks for any hints.
If you still have issues, taking the date of the single message you've found + the other participant in the chat, theres this workaround that gives you the entire days worth of results
But my search in the desktop client now has a button that scrolls me back to the location in the chat. This is an update from the last few months.Stefan Hanrath Searching UI is very broken. Took me a while to figure out a solution that would scroll the chat window up to get the context. Figured I'd post my workaround for 1.5.00.8070 (64-bit), as I do remember being able to do this directly.
Type in top bar or ctrl-F, get a list of results.
Click on Go to Message (which very unhelpfully gives you no context).
Hover over message to get reaction popup, and dots menu -> choose Pin.
Click on Conversation with <person/group> at the top, which brings you to present day chats (again, not helpful).
Now you have a top banner with your pinned message, and clicking that scrolls you up.
Yay, context.
- It is a little maddening how painful search is in Teams and that we have to go through such insane hoops to find the context of a message. Or in my case (that lead me to this thread), I asked a user a question which they answered. I knew the question, didn't know the answer. So I searched my question, pinned that message and did the scroll up to find their answer.
Remember when S4B saved convo history in Outlook and you could search both chat and email? Although search wasn't great, it gave a one-stop search spot for all comms... kind of missing that these days.