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Search

The search box in Mattermost brings back results from any channel of which you’re a member. No results are returned from channels where you are not a member - even if they are open channels.

Some things to know about search:

  • Multiple search terms are connected with “OR” by default. Typing in Mattermost website returns results containing “Mattermost” or “website”
  • Use from: to find posts from specific users and in: to find posts in specific channels. For example: Searching Mattermost in:town-square only returns messages in Town Square that contain Mattermost
  • Use quotes to return search results for exact terms. For example: Searching "Mattermost website" returns messages containing the entire phrase "Mattermost website" and not messages containing only Mattermost or website
  • Use the * character for wildcard searches that match within words. For example: Searching for rea* brings back messages containing reach, reason and other words starting with rea
  • Click on the Jump link on the right of a search result to view the post archive in the center channel

Limitations:

  • Search in Mattermost uses the full text search features included in either a MySQL or Postgres database, which has some limitations
    • Special cases that are not supported in default full text search, such as searching for IP addresses like 10.100.200.101, can be added in future as the search feature evolves
    • Two letter searches and common words like "this", "a" and "is" won't appear in search results
    • For searching in Chinese try adding * to the end of queries