How to search in Front

Can we default the toggle to "ALL FOLDERS" - we find that's the one we want to use most frequently.

Cori Morris Is there a limitation to search in regards to age of emails? I have some emails in my frontapp inbox from a year ago however frontapp search doesn't find them. 

Tim, there is no limitation to how far back Front search will go. All your emails are indexed once they are in your account. Have you tried using some of the advanced parameters to drill down your results list? 

I agree with  Jon Cattivera  . Searching everything is for sure the most frequently used option. I've seen people of my team complaining that they couldn't find some email, but it was because they didn't select the all folders option.

Andersen Yu all sorted. I signed up using an old trial. I deleted and re-added my mailbox. Working fine now!

Anyway to make a "negative" search? 
Lets say I'm searching a phrase and getting to many results... and want to remove all the results containing a specific word?

Maybe like this: 
things with wheels not:cars

Cori Morris sounds perfekt...

Hi Front Team,

I am using Front with three other sales people in an office setting. It is incredibly useful to use the search feature (e.g., "interest flat screen" to find previous conversations about our televisions with technical details); however, there is no real way to quickly find information within a message. The Word or Explorer equivalent would be Cntrl + F, i.e. the "find function." 

Am I right that this does not yet exist?

Thanks for your help!

-Cullin

Cullin Flynn We very much would love this same function. I don't believe there's a way now but I also could be missing something. We have very long threads, and digging through them all is cumbersome.

Cori Morris Thank you for the consideration. 

That's great! However, it looks like it just finds one visible in the thread, and not what is in the collapsed emails (which I believe is just a default Front functionality and not something you can control preference-wise?) and you have to expand each message in the thread, then cmd+f again to find it. Is this accurate?

(Ideally, it'd auto-expand any collapsed threads that have that search term in them....)

Let me know, and regardless, thanks for making progress on it!

That makes sense—in that case, maybe if it had some other kind of indicator, or just opened the messages in the thread with the keyword, that'd be helpful. Regardless, great news that there's a bit better way and more progress in that direction.

Cori Morris Is the expand all messages in a thread feature something coming along very far in the future? A little warning dialog mentioning that expanding all messages will cause delays in the app is all you need for now to set the right expectation for a user.

If you are optimizing said feature in the future I would understand but there should be no reason to not have this available at the moment. I'm here working with 100+ message threads and the fact that every single time I have to open all messages to find what I'm looking for along with the slow load time of scrolling within the messages in the thread. It's a bit of a nightmare for me here!

Hi Victor Garcia 

This feature is in our backlog currently, as the team is working on some major improvements to the app, which I'm sure you'll enjoy. We will post an update here once we have news!

Any ways we can Save a search string or even better, convert them to Smart Lists?

Is there an OR function for searches?  For example, I want emails from Sender A OR Sender B in one search.

If your team member needs to see your advanced search results, is the only option to send them your advanced search parameters (ex: before:2019-02-01 after:2018-12-31 tag:january_non_bug)? It seems like you can make it easier for your team member by providing them the URL of your search results (since it includes the advanced parameters in it).

I tested my advanced search results URL in an Incognito window, but it redirected me to a Front SSO login page. We do not use SSO for Front. Also, when I input my correct email/password it said it was incorrect.

So it looks like I cannot send my team member a link. Instead, they need to go to Front, copy + paste my advanced search parameters, and press enter.

Guys, any news on negative search? Or smart folders of some kind.