Personal Conversations need Search and Labels

[Enigma]

Two things I see as fairly critical for Personal Conversations-- Search and Labels/tags/folders.

Search-- we should be able to search Personal Conversations by title/content/sender/recipient etc.

Labels-- there should be some way to organise your Personal Conversations. Personally, I'd like to see a Gmail-esque Label system, but folders would work as well.

 

[Niro]

My Conversation Essentials add-on (paid) implements labels, and Conversation Improvements add-on (free) implements conversation search.

Will buy them for sure when a stable XF 2.1 version is available

 

[younes]

For me it is more than 600 pages

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We really need this feature ...

1756 Pages and counting
Search in conversations is really needed

 

[Optic]

Would be nice to see this.

Funnily enough, IPS lets you search by simple keywords BUT you can't filter by username. So both platforms have their pros and cons in regards to Conversations.

 

[dethfire]

This is pretty bonkers we still don't have a super basic search for conversations. In fact there was something for filtering usernames in 1.x and how in 2.x it's gone. We're going backwards!

 

[Chris D]

We rarely go backwards.

Username filtering is in the "Filters" menu at the top of the conversation list.

 

[est3ban129]

+1

 

[radu81]

Not interested about labels, just a simple search inside conversations would be enough for me.

this is smf 2.0 released +10 years ago

it also have labels, but never used them

 

[AndyB]

just a simple search inside conversations would be enough for me

You might like these add-ons:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/conversation-search.5788/

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/conversation-search-plus.6504/

 

[cdub]

Two things I see as fairly critical for Personal Conversations-- Search and Labels/tags/folders.

Search-- we should be able to search Personal Conversations by title/content/sender/recipient etc.

Labels-- there should be some way to organise your Personal Conversations. Personally, I'd like to see a Gmail-esque Label system, but folders would work as well.

Yes! Why isn't this native. My conversations have become unwieldy.

 

[cdub]

The search framework is in place.
It has already been stated that it will be expanded in the future, although nothing more than that has been said.

10 years later... Can we finally get search functionality for your own conversations? Please?

 

[digitalpoint]

Crazy to me that this isn’t a thing yet… especially when the underlying framework/handlers are all there. I’ve added it to my sites fairly easily, but that doesn’t help when I’ve been trying to find a conversation on this site.

Fundamentally it’s no different than searching posts that are in forums that not everyone has access to (searching private content). XenForo has all the internals already to do this….

 

[Xon]

Fundamentally it’s no different than searching posts that are in forums that not everyone has access to (searching private content). XenForo has all the internals already to do this….

I'm fairly sure it is a holdover from the XF's MySQL search just not being nearly as scalable, and not really looked at for efficiently excluding subsets of content