{"id":4128,"date":"2018-12-18T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2018-12-19T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:05:39","slug":"did-you-know-microsoft-teams-chat-can-help-you-find-messages-others-post-into-teams-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4128","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 Microsoft Teams Chat can help you find messages others post into Teams spaces?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a member of multiple Teams, and I can remember that Keith posted something about creating a Q&amp;A a few days ago \u2026 but I don\u2019t remember&nbsp;<em>where<\/em>&nbsp;he posted that message. I cannot reply to it until I find it. Search can help &#8212; chat conversations&nbsp;<em>are<\/em> searchable. But did he type QnA, Q&amp;A, Q and A &#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of clicking through&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;of the channels in all of my Teams spaces trying to find a single post or working my way through the various ways of phrasing &#8220;questions and answers&#8221;, I can look at my chat with Keith. Click the \u201cActivity\u201d tab. Now I am looking at things Keith has posted to our shared Teams spaces in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat02-1024x320.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat02-1024x320.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat02-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat02-768x240.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat02.png 1892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Team and channel into which the activity was posted is included before each message. An icon indicates if the activity is a reply to an existing thread or a message starting a new thread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"379\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat03.png 927w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat03-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat03-768x314.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can click on any entry in the activity log.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat04-1024x171.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat04-1024x171.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat04-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat04-768x128.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat04.png 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your Teams client will show you the message in its context \u2013 you are in the correct Team and Channel, and the message is briefly highlighted. This makes replying to the message we found in the activity feed quite quick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"423\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat05.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat05.png 538w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TeamsChat05-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you&#8217;ve never chatted with the person? Start a new chat and type in their name. You don&#8217;t have to <em>send<\/em> a message to them (although I could totally see myself writing &#8220;ignore this message &#8211; I just needed to get you listed in my recent conversations&#8221;), just click away and there will be a draft chat with them. Click on that draft chat, and you&#8217;ll have an &#8220;Activity&#8221; tab. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a member of multiple Teams, and I can remember that Keith posted something about creating a Q&amp;A a few days ago \u2026 but I don\u2019t remember&nbsp;where&nbsp;he posted that message. I cannot reply to it until I find it. Search can help &#8212; chat conversations&nbsp;are searchable. But did he type QnA, Q&amp;A, Q and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[730,729,666,686,265,665],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-now","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams","tag-office-365","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}