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 andin:
to find posts in specific channels. For example: SearchingMattermost in:town-square
only returns messages in Town Square that containMattermost
- 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 onlyMattermost
orwebsite
- Use the
*
character for wildcard searches that match within words. For example: Searching forrea*
brings back messages containingreach
,reason
and other words starting withrea
.
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