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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 other way around is search the relevant msg and pin it from the search result. then go to chat and click on the pinned msg, and can go to the msg you are looking for and all the previous and next msg around it.
The other way around is search the relevant msg and pin it from the search result. then go to chat and click on the pinned msg, and can go to the msg you are looking for and all the previous and next msg around it.
The other way around is search the relevant msg and pin it from the search result. then go to chat and click on the pinned msg, and can go to the msg you are looking for and all the previous and next msg around it.
@suman_fin
THIS IS AMAZING! IT WORKS PERFECTLY! Thank you so much for posting this. Still cumbersome, but this alone makes it worth the price of admission to use.
Can you please add this feature? It is long overdue and simple fix
It is 2022 and this is still not a thing. Slack can do this, just saying.