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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
type="topic" style="tasks"
id="prev-conv">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
<desc>Browse or search your previous conversations.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-17" status="stub"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-31" status="review">
<!--
<e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-08-31" status="done"/>
-->
</revision>
<credit type="author">
<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
<!--
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
</copyright>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
-->
</info>
<title>View previous conversations</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2009-08-31">Shaun McCance</cite>
<p>Highlighting text is quirky:
<link href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593733">#593733</link>.
If there's an actual highlighting going on, independent of the selection
(like in yellow or something), we can use the term "highlight". Otherwise
we need to use the term "select". Watch that bug.</p>
</comment>
<p>
<app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations you have
with your contacts. You can <link xref="#search">search through all of your
previous conversations</link> or <link xref="#browse">browse previous
conversations</link> by contact and date.
</p>
<note>
<p>
You do not need to be connected to the Internet to view and search your previous
conversations.
</p>
</note>
<section id="search" style="task">
<title>Search previous conversations</title>
<p>You can perform a full-text search through all of your previous conversations.</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui>
<gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>. Alternatively, press <key>F3</key>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select the <gui>Search</gui> tab.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>In the <gui>For</gui> field, type the text you want to search for.
Click <gui>Find</gui> or press <key>Enter</key>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Any conversations that matched your search terms will be shown in the list below
the search field. By default, conversations are ordered by date.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click on a conversation to view it. <app>Empathy</app> will select the text
in the conversation that matched your search terms.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>
<section id="browse" style="task">
<title>Browse previous conversations</title>
<p>You can browse your previous conversations with your contacts or in
chat rooms by date.</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui>
<gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>. Alternatively, press <key>F3</key>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select the <gui>Conversations</gui> tab.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select an account from the drop-down list in the top left. A list of
contacts and chat room for that account will be shown below.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select a contact or chat room to view your previous conversations from.
By default the most recent conversation will be shown.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>You can browse your conversations by date. Days on which you had a conversation
with the selected contact will be shown in bold text. Click a date to select it.
Click the arrows next to the month and year to browse earlier dates.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>You can search for text in the displayed conversation by typing into the
search field at the top. The matching text will be highlighted.</p>
<note style="tip">
<p>You can quickly view the previous conversations with one of your contacts
from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window. Simply right click the contact and
choose <gui>View Previous Conversations</gui>. The <gui>Previous
Conversations</gui> window will open with that contact already selected.</p>
</note>
</section>
</page>
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