Search Functionality is not working as expected
Search functionality is not working. I was trying to find a conversation related to a word "FNTS" in one of our channel and the search yielded no result. We manually could scroll and find references to it, but the search showed zero results. This prompted us to probe more and we searched using a few more words and at times it gave some results but not all. This seems to be really buggy.. Is this something that you are trying to fix? I have championed the move from SLACK to TEAMS and am getting a lot of grief from some folks who really depend on tools like this. It will be nice if you could respond to this, and let us know if this is getting fixed.
Kedar
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Fon
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Searching in general is something that should be improved in Teams. Not only searching for words within chats or channel but also searching for documents and even folders that are not available and should be, as it would help if you didn't have to browse to a channel to locate a sharepoint folder associated with the channel.
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Anonymous
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So frustrating! Not at all helpful to find the word and not be able to access context/messages before and after. Why even bother having a search?
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Mat
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I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a message containing the word "impact". Teams found plenty of results, just not the one I wanted. Searching for other words in the same message was hit and miss. Depending on the word searched for, sometimes it found that message, sometimes it didn't. Perhaps the worst of all worlds!
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Anonymous
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I've never relied on Teams' search. It's easily verifiable that the results are horribly incomplete. It would be really nice if it would be, though. Scrolling through endless messages in multiple channels to find a reference to something is a royal pain and an enormous waste of time.
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AO
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It was working just fine for me this morning, now everything I search for "no results"
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Anonymous
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Search works for me but shows only the message, not the context of the conversation, which is useless. Fix this, Microsoft!
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HELP HELP
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HELP WITH THIS !
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Anonymous
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Notice... crickets.... MS making boat loads of money on half-baked products.
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Anonymous
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This is the problem with auto-updated **** - it takes stuff that WAS working and makes it to where it doesn't work anymore - and you have no choice but to accept it. Where's the regression testing over at MS?
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CUNT LICKAH
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FIX NOW PLEASE !!! I CANT EVEN SEARCH ACOUNTS WITH THE NUMBERS AND THAT IS 95% OF THE JOB
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Manning
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I normally use the search bar to locate the end user I want to chat with. When I type in the name, I receive choices, but when I click on the name, the search results go away, and I am back to the same screen as before. The only way I can "search" for and chat with another employee is to click on the "new message" button and choose their name from there.
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juchi
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When I search for something, I get results from chats but I get nothing from posts within channels. That's crazy! That needs to get fixed right away!
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Serge
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Same problem
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Anonymous
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I have the same issue today - has worked fine in the past but now I can not search some teams it is making it very difficult for our team to find what they need.
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misterQ
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Same issue here. Works on mobile but not on the desktop!
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David Suarez
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Had this very same issue today, search not returning any results on group chat but it was working fine two days ago.
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Paulo Umetsu
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I have the same problem. I need to verify if the students answered the questions and when I search, no results come but if I do manually, I can see the posts.
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Man Dang
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I can search for the keyword on my Teams client and got result, but my colleague can not. He has the latest Teams client and Owner access.
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Anonymous
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I have the same problem, can't search in one team. Not in Teams, not in the Team-site in Sharepoint. Please fix this problem.
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Jean
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This feature is SO key to selling teachers on "buy in" because they get so overwhelmed with all the information they stop using it. I was using it some time ago and it worked, but now, it only pulls up information from within chats between myself and others.
I can create an announcement in the Posts for my faculties to get the necessary information and when I go back to search the key word in my Announcement Title, that post never gets pulled up.
Teachers are using TEAMS now, more so than before because of remote learning. If it would work as it says it should, we would get more people on board with using TEAMS.
You all have been amazing to listen to what teachers need or want in educational technology, I hopeful that this will be fixed soon.
Thank you,
Jean Dolling