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Looking for help with a particular issue with searching for older messages inside of Teams.
When I search for a certain keyword - say, "hot dog" - I get results that are both old and recent from past conversations. If I look at the recent results I get the full message context that surrounds it - messages coming and going.
If I read older messages, however, I only get the single message result without any surrounding context. This is only marginally helpful, as the context is necessary to add, well, context to the conversation!
Has anyone figured out how to do this? Is it an admin side thing that needs to change?
Finding specific messages or threads using search tools within Microsoft Teams chat history
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The link to provide feed back is broken.
The feed back is that the tool should be able to provide context for old messages as well as new.
Just tried Chris09 method and for a message dated 1 year and 4 months back, I get "Unable to find the message"
I'm still having good luck with the 'Pop-Out Chat' workaround. I definitely prefer it to the 'pin' trick because the pinning is shared between all conversation participants. This isn't multiplayer search.
The best way to search I have found so far is to perform a search, then when you find a result you want, hover over the profile picture in the search result, and in the pop-up select 'open chat', which opens the chat in a popped out window. Then you can hit 'go to message' on the search result. This doesn't work on group chats or anything where there isn't a "profile" to mouse over. In those cases you have to manually find the chat to pop out.
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It's absurd that in 2022 this functionality does still not exist in Teams. This should come standard on any chat client. This is a solved problem that competing applications do not have. There is hardly even a point to having search capabilities if you cannot view the context of the conversation in which your searched message appears.
Thanks for your post in our forum. When searching for an old message in Teams, we can only click to check the details about this specific chat message, but unfortunately, it is not feasible to show the chat history related to the specific search result.
This is a straight up lie. As mentioned, other chat programs have this figured out, but even regardless of that, I am able to view old chat history in Teams by pinning a message to a chatroom and clicking on the pinned message. Teams shows me the full context of the conversation and even allows me to scroll up and down after navigating to the pinned message. If that is possible, then how is it "not feasible" to do the same for the search function?