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We are not able to use a partial string when searching.

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  • Maxim Fomin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wildcard search in Teams is not working for numbers! Wildcard *VE123* finding something, but *123* does not! Also Outlook search is BAD. Those all searches are VERY BAD, fix them!

  • Brad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This BUG is over 2years old!

    Wow is not a strong enough word for this.

    Please fix this BUG immediately, and in every part of Teams (not just the main search bar, but in EVERY PART of the software)

    This is so extremely basic, and such a foundational requirement for any tool. To push forward on integrating nifty gadgets, but miss on such a core functionality, really is shocking.

  • Henriette commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a gamechanger for the adaptation of MS Teams from outlook in my company. If people can't search partial strings then it becomes a showstopper for rolling out MS TEams.
    I'm surprised that this hasn't been included as part of the recent improvement to the search functionality in Teams.
    PLEASE prioritise this support the transition to Teams.

  • froilan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    a basic string of phone number cannot be search. I have to really input the full number just to have a result. this is just an example how not reliable the current search feature is... :(

  • Michael Shepherd commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    ... and you guys wonder why no one using Bing as a search engine! I'm scared for you to see what Project Cortex does or doesn't 'search'.

  • Mark commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    when searching for a team, partial string works...but only if you get the start of the string correct. So if I'm looking for My Team and I search using 'My', it works, but if I use 'Team' it doesn't.
    This is embarrassingly bad, it's 2020, doing search correctly is easy! This isn't a feature request, it's a bug that needs to be fixed.
    Is there an ETA...even a rough one?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, could you update the progress of this case? It is hard to go from Sharpoint online to Teams when users get worse experience compated to old solutions. Thanks

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When the name contains underscores, it is not possible to find it at all. For example the file name is "number___wordA__wordB__wordC", I can find the file only if I type the number and words without the underscores e.g. "Word A word B". Search on MS Teams and on SharePoint returns 0 when searching for example "wordA__wordB".

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Almost October and still no progress on this feature.
    How can I ever search for the right team within my company (unless the exact name is given)?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The search option in Teams is not as strong yet as it is in Outlook. This keeps people emailing. Hope search will be as good as the Outlook one as soon as possible :)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    being able to search content throughout a webpage is a basic need. we need this for our Teams Wiki. Otherwise, the wiki is useless and we'll resort to another solution.

  • Krystal commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Experiencing many problems in trying to search for files in Teams. I would have thought that partial strings would be standard. We hope to move a lot of our files into Teams and hope to use a simple naming convention but the inability to search for various files using partial strings is a big downer. with lots of content i should be able to type in a partial file or code and it should pulls those files up.

  • Brad Groux commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 for searching for teams by wildcard. It is pretty silly that wildcard searches work nearly everywhere else across the entire Microsoft stack, but Teams search is only by prefix. If nothing else, the Teams search experience should state that you must search by exact team name or prefix.

    Also, TRAIN YOUR PREMIER SUPPORT STAFF FOR THIS! I had a ticket open for six weeks, and frontline support had no clue that you could only search by prefix. I wasted countless hours back and forth between them, and only after the ticket was escalated to the product group did I learn this limitation.

  • Pete commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Well the good thing is if people are complaining about a feature not working, then they are trying your tool. But searching for a string in a team name seams pretty basic. Glad you're working on this oversight. Hopefully it will be out soon.

  • Markus commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    is that the reason why one can only search for teams using the beginning of the first string/word of a teams title? lol

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