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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Not sure why this is getting flagged as a closed item when we still cannot search properly in Teams.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Need to make sure the implementation supports searching in current direct message/chat too - not just Team/channel. They already have search filters that do some of this, but those search filters don't allow filtering to a specific direct message

  • AH commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Mariel Ctrl+F is something that works in all my other chat programs and it saves at least 7 mouse clicks and the time to do so.

    I'd also want it to enable search through the Wiki you have open.

  • Mariel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is something you can already do: Simply search for something in the Search bar and FILTER the search results by team and Channel

  • Liz Braun commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be extremely helpful as we have LARGE amounts of content in our teams and need a way to be able to filter results to specific channels.

  • Steve Ruby commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yeah, this doesn't work. On mobile for example if I am in a channel there is no search option from there

  • RichardV commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think this is essential as we use channels to update everyone with new features and videos. I know the channel where the content is but its now got so much useful info in it I can't actually easily find what I need. I want a quick search box at the top of that channel to search just in that channel.

  • Bruce Edge commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For the love of God, why does Ctrl-F not let you search the existing channel????

    Notepad has better search features.

  • Peter Kral commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow search within a specific channel. When someone references a previous statement within the conversation, make it easy to find. It is not easy to find with the current search box.

  • Koji Yamada commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add per-channel search function. Cross-sectional searches that are already available are also useful, but sometimes we want to search within a particular channel.

  • Jon Beckman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The current search function through the command bar feels cumbersome. A channel-specific search bar would be more efficient.
    At least being able to set up a default search location as the last viewed channel would help immensely.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @skprufo
    Hi Suphatra

    See below comments - and please get back regarding if you are currently working on this topic. We also need to be able to search in all the content eg in sides and sections too.

  • Sasha Rosenbaum commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is crucial because searching everything is near-useless when the search term is common. Imagine searching all of Teams (I am already in 40 or so) for the word "meeting" or the word "address". Searching within a particular channel or user chat history would let me see only what is relevant.

  • Gurce Isikyildiz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd like a smart CTRL-F implementation that filters your search query to solely be within the scope of what you are currently viewing.

    E.g.:
    - If you are chatting with a person, show search results from just that person
    - If you are chatting with a team, show search results from within that team

    I noticed you already have a little filter icon for the user to specify such scope, so hopefully it'd be a simple matter of detecting which person/team the user is presently on, and then automatically populating the relevant filter-fields that you have.

  • J K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    > The tab that says "In this channel" no longer appears to be present in the current version of Teams.

    I am also experiencing this. The "WE HAVE THIS" solution is not (or is no longer) accurate.

    I'm in an enterprise that sees wide use of Teams. An all-channel search is nearly useless, as it returns far too many results, especially for common words.

    We need per-channel search pronto.

  • Andriy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @skprufo Teams doesn't have this!
    Please, read the requests more carefully before marking them as done.
    It looks in all channel.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is important to be able to limit to a particular Channel in the filter vs just the Team.

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