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Teams messages search function does not show full conversation
ph_ly this is NOT a workaround.
1/ the scroll back feature is buggy. It’s laggy, often displays messages in the wrong order. It doesn’t really allow to scroll back too far. Contrary to what we used to have with Slack, before Microsoft imposed it’s buggy software to every manager they work with in the city.
2/ how do you know exactly to where you have to scroll back ? It can be months backs.
This is not a workaround. It’s just to make us look picky and to minimize the actual multi faced issue.
Chasal777 it jumps you straight to the message with context, if you follow the steps we have posted several times.
Please actually try it.
ph_ly In my experience anyway, it only works if the chat conversation you're looking for is relatively recent. Otherwise, the popped out chat just spins at the "loading..." page and never returns results. Not sure if others experience the same thing.
KarenKim Sorry to hear that. It works for me fairly reliably for conversations in the past couple of years, at least. I just did it on a chat from June 2020.
Still not perfect, but it's the best way got.
- It sounds like most people in this thread don't use Teams for Teams channels, just for private chat sessions. We use it as a business communication platform where finding previously posted project information is massively important. Our work environment is a Teams channel for each project and each department, and we only use chat for side conversations not directly work related. So when we search, the things discussed in private chats are never what we are looking for. So work arounds for chat do not help us one bit and no one has posted a work around for Teams channels. We used to use Slack (which many of us still use on the side) and the search works perfectly. No work-arounds needed. And yes, if we had a choice we would go back to Slack but decisions were made above our pay scale to save a few buck$, Teams was the cheap solution and we're getting what we (didn't) pay for.
- I use an app called `My Saved Messages` and it helps me a lot, hopes it also helps you guys
https://github.com/lengocthuong15/MS-Teams-Trick- You are currently the best person on the internet. Thank you very much for saving me countless hours of endless scrolling.
