mattermost Mattermost search doesn't work with text attachments

Summary

Search engine doesn't work with text in message attachments text and text fields.

Steps to reproduce

Mattermost Enterprise Edition Mattermost Version: 6.7.0 Search some text from a message text attachment.

Expected behavior

I can find messages by the text from message text attachments and text fields. Now it works only with message text.

Observed behavior (that appears unintentional)

It works when message text and attachment fields both have the same word to search like that

Jun 23 '22 10:06 juliavav

Opened: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-45293.

Jun 23 '22 10:06 amyblais

I see that attachments are being stored in a separate props field in the database as a JSON string, and that field is not being included in the search (with DB search engine at least).

How could you enable search of attachment text but only the rendered text, and not other props, JSON keys, markdown, etc? Index the rendered attachment text separately? Or attempt to parse it in the search function? But it would need to work in ElasticSearch and Bleve too...

Jun 29 '22 17:06 MatthewDorner

same issues please fix :(,is good to see it can be search with text attachment 😄

Sep 18 '22 16:09 cobengualon

@amyblais Same bug with my Maltermost Server. Hope Maltermost Team can fix it soon. Many thanks to team if it can be fix 👯

Sep 18 '22 17:09 territestgogo

@amyblais We have the same problem, please fix it soon :<

Sep 18 '22 17:09 ErikHorus1249

Got the same problem on my server :/, plz fix it T.T

Sep 18 '22 17:09 manhdinh798

The mattermost plugin for (Prometheus) Albertmanager notifications uses text attachments to display alerts. It would be very useful to be able to search through them.

Jan 21 '23 23:01 fschlich

Still present in 7.10 :crossed_fingers:

Apr 21 '23 08:04 akuzia

We also use attachments to send alerts from monitoring system, that's help us to see well formatted information about alerts. Sometimes we need to go through history to mind what's happened there, but this bug ruin everything :(