Export messages from Teams Chat?

This doesn't work for me using Office 365, teams, and Chrome. It only prints one or two pages of the nearest section. I also tried "Print" from Chromes menu, same thing, 1 page is presented, in my case it should be 20 or 30 pages.

This is not exactly a new phenomenon for Microsoft. If you want usable data out of the Mac version of One Note, you have to click, select all, select all (again) and then copy and switch to a real document and paste. Aside from that, OneNote can give you a PDF as an export of your page. Great if you want to share a finished document, but not user friendly and hostile to data portability.  Teams is worse in this respect in that the select all does not work at scale even within a chat. (I stand corrected on my previous advice here. It works for a bit, but not much chat history). 

For my personal computing, I insist upon using tools that give me complete exportability and portability of my content (and in standards-based formats).  Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to mandate these kinds of common sense requirements in my workplace, however I do try to encourage it. 

Bottom line - users should demand that our data be easily and usefully exportable from any tool that we use.  Chat is mostly text and some images/links, etc. No reason why a RTF, HTML, or XML file (with images in a directory) can't be produced on command. Or even a Word docx or an email.

Hello SJBOEGE,

Based on my experience, the hotkey Ctrl + A is not a feasible way to copy the entire conversation. We need to hold on the left key of the mouse then move up the mouse to select the conversations' content, and then press Ctrl + C and Ctrl + v to copy/paste them.

Maybe capture some screenshots of the conversation is a better way for backup.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Please do take care. 

Regards,

Rudy

 

This is a non-starter solution because while you can click-drag to highlight the conversation and cut/paste small bits of it, after about a page of highlighting it stops and you can't highlight any more. It's almost as if an artificial limitation is in place because in no other program in Windows in 20 years of working on this platform have I seen a limitation like that. It's beyond asinine. 

And taking screenshots of the chat is a terrible workaround.

The Teams dev team has the weirdest/worst dev roadmap. They'll put emojis as priority but something as basic as getting a conversation out of Teams without running to the admin panel and powershell is impossible and has been for like 2-3 years.

See this blog: https://regroove.ca/stellark/2019/07/02/how-to-export-ms-teams-chat-history/

This is useful but for an end user solution it's a non-starter. You shouldn't have to get an admin involved to extract a chat session out of Teams. Still thank you for the link.

This sucks! My life is too short for this!