Search in Spaces

1. Press Ctrl+K, or Cmd+K on a Mac. The panel is titled Search Spaces.
2. Type at least two characters in Find a message, file, person, direct message, channel, or Space.
3. Choose Search, then choose a result to open it.

Results are grouped as Messages, Files, People, Direct messages and channels, and Spaces. The Result type control narrows them to one group. Search scope limits the search to the current thread, the current conversation, or one Space instead of everything.

Narrowing a search

Open Filters for:

• Sender and Author, with Anyone, People, Agents, or People and agents
• From and To dates
• Exact phrase and Exclude words
• Has file and Has link
• Mentions me
• Order, with Most relevant or Newest

Searching one conversation

A wide window puts a search box in the channel header, labelled Search in {{roomName}}. It searches that conversation only, including history older than what is on screen. Its own help text says so, and names the filter tokens it takes.

Results come in two groups. Loaded messages matches what is already on screen, and takes the from:, mentions:, has:link, and decision:true tokens. Earlier in this conversation searches the stored history and needs at least two plain characters; the tokens do not apply there. A match from history opens in place rather than moving the timeline. Show more results loads the next ten.

This box searches messages only, never file names. It is only present on wide windows; on a narrow window, use the Spaces search panel.

If it did not work

• Enter at least two characters to search. means the query is too short.
• No matches with Try another phrase or widen the scope. means nothing matched. Widen Search scope or clear the filters.
• Search failed. Try again. and History search failed. are service failures. Choose Retry.
• History search is unavailable in this conversation. means the stored history cannot be searched here. The Loaded messages group still works.
• Search never returns something you cannot already read, so a message in a channel you are not in will not appear.