September 22, 2020 by Ilia Pirozhenko • 5 min read • Microsoft Teams
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A lot of Microsoft Teams users store their company data in the built-in wiki and love it, until they find that it lacks quite a few key features, one of which is a search function.
In this blog post I’ll share with you less of a baked solution, and more of a workaround that I found on the Microsoft Community forums [1].
This workaround will allow you to do a full-text search through the Microsoft Teams built-in wiki. Follow the step-by-step guide in this post, and you'll be able to perform a full-text search with highlighting through your wiki content right inside Microsoft Teams.
We’ll use the fact that the Microsoft Teams built-in wiki stores all of its data in a document library in the SharePoint team site of the team that created it. All wiki pages are stored as files with .mht extensions inside a folder named after the channel in “Teams Wiki Data.”
So, to do a full-text search inside the built-in wiki, we’ll scope the SharePoint full-text search to the “Teams Wiki Data” folder and “.mth” extensions. Then we’ll add a SharePoint search function as a “Website” tab to Microsoft Teams channel.
We’re done with theory, now let’s jump into detailed step-by-step instructions.
Find a link to the SharePoint site of your team. If you already have that link, you can skip this step.
Otherwise, the easiest way to find where exactly your wiki data is stored inside SharePoint, is to get to SharePoint from your “Files” channel tab.
Woo hoo! You can now perform a full-text search through all the wiki content that you have. The only big issue with this solution is that you can’t open the wiki page right from the search tab. You will have to manually find the exact page, but you can grab the wiki and channel name from the link.
As stated at the beginning, this method is more of a loophole than a baked solution.
If you want a solid solution, check out Perfect Wiki. We are a feature rich knowledge base app for Microsoft Teams, with full-text typo-tolerant search through all your pages, instant export/import functions, and much more.
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Also, you can vote on Microsoft Feedback Portal to implement the search function inside the built-in wiki (it’s about time).
Tried out the solution? Share it with a colleague and on social media!
Ilia is the founder of Perfect Wiki and is passionate about helping users with whatever questions they might have. He works hard to ensure Perfect Wiki users get the best experience possible.
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