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Teams messages search function does not show full conversation
When using the search function in Teams chat, is there a way to see more than just one specific message (I would like to see the response to the message)? For example, I searched for a question that ...
I've found a workaround:
Search message as usual -> Click on a message that you want -> Choose `...` -> Select pin message -> Go back to the chat -> Click on the pinned message.
lengocthuong15 For me, it just pinned the one message and did not take me to the conversation of the other message of that hour/day. 😞
- Thanks but ACK! The vast majority of the messages we are searching for are in TEAM'S CHANNELs and *NOT* in chat messages. This is like wanting to search through your emails and everyone posts ways to find things in your text messages.
phlyx as I posted earlier, channel context does not exist, unlike chat. If someone replies to an old channel post it will bump it up to the newest post.
Stop being nasty to others in this conversation. You should be using Reply to keep all channel conversation in a single thread.
- Nothing personal intended, just anger at MS ignoring (7 pages) of people complaining about this. If someone searches for a Team's channel discussion from a year ago you can find the 'date' it was posted and the single comment it was made in, nothing before, nothing after. Then after scrolling back for 15 minutes in the channel you might be able to find the actual conversation.
And whatever you do, do *NOT* click out of that to look at something else in Teams because your scrolling exercise starts all over again. We know we have several work-arounds that sort-of work for chats, but the DM/PM stuff is side-line chit-chat. If that is all we wanted we'd go back to AIM. Teams is made for..... well.... Teams. Simple way to stop the frustration, anger, nastiness, disappointment, disgust, banter, experimenting, and endless scrolling..... MAKE IT EXIST. We are in internal discussions on switching back to Slack just due to this one fact and doubt we're the only ones. So rather than judging people's comments, what's the plan and schedule for MS to show they listen to users and actually fix this? Inquiring minds want to know.
