Mar 28 2017 03:14 PM
This might have been suggested or discussed already. I would have searched for it in the community, but search really needs to improve.
I would expect that if I used quotes around a search string, it would look for the phrase. e.g. searching for "follow a channel" in the Microsoft Teams space should return results for posts with "follow a channel" in the title or body of the post, or reponses.
Instead it returns posts with the words "follow", "a", "channel", in close proximity to each other.
Then when I try to sort the results to see if there are any recent posts with that phrase, I get results with "a".
For now, I'll go ahead and post my question, regardless of whether it has been asked or not, because I cant quickly find if there is an existing discussion.
But can I ask, will this standard search feature be available in the community soon?
Mar 30 2017 12:02 PM
Hi @Darrell Webster thanks for bringing this to our attention. I can replicate your issue and will be working on making improvements so you can do standard boolean search requests. Will let you know of ETA.
Mar 30 2017 01:23 PM - edited Mar 30 2017 01:24 PM
In general it works, but not in direct way.
With empty search string click on Advanced Search options, write into the With the exact phrase box your search string like Follow a channel (without quotes), click Refine Search.
Search returns 5 results (more exactly five conversations where you may find the phrase).
Yes, that's not how we usually use search...
Apr 05 2017 02:14 PM
We're changing the search to improve this functionality.
Also, it's worth taking a look at this page to better understand how search works here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Community-Discussion/Using-Search-in-this-community/m-p/11137...
-Mike
Apr 06 2017 02:16 AM
Hi Michael,
That works fine now, thank you.