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Make connector cards searchable

Contents of cards created via connectors do not currently show up in search.

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  • Joe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I could also do with this being implemented. I have a channel setup for logging but cant search.

  • Teams User commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This rather a disappointing discovery. Having made a move from Slack to Teams to bring equipment status logs/alerts into Teams I now have to accept that I cannot search for old messages.
    How come incoming webhook data is somehow 'second class'? Why is it not treated the same as the other data?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Even more confusing as messages posted by connectors look just like any other messages with text in them, but do not show up in searches at all.

  • Mary Harvey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Messages from external applications contain very pertinent and useful information - especially in ticket resolution channels. The inability to search for these is very frustrating.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    An unhappy discovery at messages psoted via connector aren't searchable either via connector screen name or message text. Inconvenient, and almost a deal-breaker vs Slack

  • Zhou Hang commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's important to make card messages searchable in Teams or the web hook function is totally useless.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As far as I can tell, the text inside a code block (``` ```) isn't searchable? And/or the text inside a webhook content delivery isn't searchable?

  • Joar Ekendahl commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Searching for a specific build in a deployment channel is impossible right now. Makes me miss slack even more.
    Please make cards searchable!

  • S P commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is not only about connector cards, but should be generic to any connector like RSS Feed, Jira post or whatever. Connector content should be searchable.

  • Erik Maas commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a must have functionality.
    The cards show up like a message, so people expect them to behave like messages.
    And be able to search for them like a message.

  • Edwin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If connectors are able to report information in a channel then you want that information to show up in search, it's that simple. If you want to use Teams as your hub for collaboration and information sharing, top notch search options are key in this. Right now missing this feature is a major impediment for getting user acceptance for Teams.

  • James Comstock commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a big missing piece of functionality, in my opinion - missing this feature significantly decreases the value of many of the connectors (in my case, notably the Visual Studio Team Services connector). This would be somewhat mitigated if Teams did a better job of grouping connector cards for the same subject, though.

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