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Search Message by Custom Field
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Description
Hi, I have an external system that sents messages to RocketChat. I would like to use customFields to enrich the metadata messages with the metadata from the external system, e.g. Alert ID.
But I'm missing a function to search Messages by an specific custom field within a channel.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the message search entry point and the handling of customFields for messages within a channel. Clarify the search interface and expected matching behavior for a specific custom field, then define tests that demonstrate messages can be found by that field and value within the requested channel.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- backend, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100