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.

 

[high1976]

yes, would be nice. Ragtek startet this a year+ ago but never finished it properly.

 

[Grover]

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.

Completely agree: I just spend half an hour trying to find back (manually) an important PC I had with someone... with Search it would have taken me 4 secs. Search is a no-brainer in this case. In fact, I would also label it as essential for a social product like Xenforo.

 

[Grover]

I would really like the ability to search conversations too. And at the moment the search box on the Conversations page is a little misleading, as it does not search in the conversations.

I was thinking the exact same thing a few days ago when i tried to find back a burried message somewhere deep in a 'conversation'. Obviously, K+M are aware of the fact that the Conversation system needs attention, so no need to re-mind them of it . I just wanted to add this little idea:

- Maybe it's an useful idea to make the (grey coloured) phrase 'Search...' inside the searchfield context-sensitive, so when you are looking at your Conversation list, XF will recognize this and display 'Search conversations...' instead of only the 'Search...' which is used now always, regardless of what screen you are looking at. Changing it into 'Search conversation...' might make it more clear to the enduser that you are actually able to use the Search in different contexts.

 

[erich37]

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

+1000

Search of "Private Conversations" should be made simple via the "Search Box".

It is very hard to do the search via the Drop-Down at "Conversation Display Options", above all this Drop-Down is not easy to find for the average user.


http://xenforo.com/community/thread...ar-of-person-initiated-the-conversation.2727/

 

[Adam Howard]

I think I need this

13 pages and counting

 

[Alpha1]

I sometimes make the mistake of trying to search conversations and then ending up with a forum search. Its not very intuitive to have a search box in a content type that you can not search.
I would not call this a bug, but its not far from it either.

 

[thefarm]

this feature should be core, i run a large forum and get over 200 conversations a month

 

[imno007]

For now you can use this:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/conversation-search-by-waindigo.48829/page-2#post-664590

 

[JamesBrown]

+1 for being able to search conversations

 

[Lee]

Did anything ever come of this? Seems to be a rather neglected area of the software (along with the profile!)...

Labelling and searching would be most useful.

 

[Sadiq6210]

I think I need this

13 pages and counting

For me it is more than 600 pages



We really need this feature ...

 

[Xon]

For now you can use this:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/conversation-search-by-waindigo.48829/page-2#post-664590

I have a maintained add-on which provides conversation searching; https://xenforo.com/community/resources/conversation-improvements-by-xon.4518/

 

[AndyB]

I also have an add-on called Conversation Search.

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/conversation-search.2807/

 

[Alpha1]

I am honestly surprised that XF2 doesnt have conversation search yet. It would be a new feature and XF2 has feature parity. But I did expect such glaring missing feature that is present in all other content types.

 

[RobinHood]

7 years on and still no way to search conversations, yikes.

Thankfully Xon and Andy is there to save the day yet again.

 

[PASS]

FP liked. 2.1 debut!!!

 

[Niro]

@Mike @Chris D please, can this be implemented on XF 2.1 ?

Thanks guys!

 

[Chris D]

No, 2.1 is feature locked at this point so it will be considered in the future.

 

[Niro]

No, 2.1 is feature locked at this point so it will be considered in the future.

Alright then, thanks.

 

[Xon]

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