The only way to get that previous history automatically is if an admin set the option described in this post before you joined the chat. You are NOT able to get the history of the chat before you joined. However, this history is only available for the time that you have been in the chat. The "/history" command loads the chat history ON YOUR COMPUTER into the window for the chat. Note that this is VERY different from the " /history" command in the IRC-style commands for Skype I recently wrote about. You may want to find out what version of Skype they are using. but I thought I'd mention it in case you have people joining a chat and not getting any history. and given that I have no Windows machines around to test, I can't tell you for sure.
Did this chat history feature get broken in Skype 5.1? I don't know. In asking what Skype version they were using, it turned out both were running the new Skype 5.1 on Windows. Now, having said all this, I recently had two people join a Skype chat and not get any history upon joining. You can type it if you are just a user in the chat, and Skype won't tell you that it didn't execute. Note, again, that you must be an administrator of a Skype chat for this command to actually execute. (Of course, some of those chats are very busy and so 400 messages may only take you back a very short period of time.) I've enabled this setting on a number of chats for which I am an admin, and it's definitely helped newcomers come up to speed on what is being discussed in the chat. The limit that they can see is either 400 messages or two weeks of time, depending on which is reached first. Joiners can see the conversation that took place before they joined. An administrator for the chat simply has to type in the chat window:Īfter this, anyone joining the chat will see recent history. This turns out to be ridiculously easy to do in a Skype group chat. Would you like to make it so that when you add someone to a Skype chat they automagically see some of the recent history of the chat? So that people joining a team or a project can rapidly come up to speed on what has been discussed?
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