Issues & support
Set up Stack Overflow for Teams
Connect your private Stack Overflow for Teams site to make internal Q&A searchable — each question becomes a document with its body and every answer, the accepted one marked, tied to its tags, so a question your team already answered never gets answered twice. Read-only.
Before you start
- The credential is a personal access token: on your team site open your avatar → Account settings → Personal Access Tokens and create one — no expiry works, since read access is all that is ever used.
- The token reads what its owner can see; only reads are ever issued — nothing is written to the site.
- You also need the Team slug — the your-company in stackoverflowteams.com/c/your-company, straight from the address bar.
- Documents → Stack Overflow for Teams, enter the Team slug — just the team part of stackoverflowteams.com/c/your-company/….
- Paste the Personal access token.
- Choose access groups, Test, then Sync.
What comes in
- Each question becomes a document titled with the question: its score, answer count, tags, who asked it and when, then the question body, flattened to plain text.
- Every answer follows underneath under its author and date — the accepted answer first and marked accepted, the rest highest-voted first. The document's state says whether the question is answered or still open.
- Comments under a question or its answers are not read; questions and answers are the whole of it.
| Team slug | Open your team in the browser: the address reads stackoverflowteams.com/c/your-company/… — enter just the team part. |
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Access
Stack Overflow for Teams exposes no per-question viewers to mirror, so the access groups chosen on the source cover every question it brings in — access is allow-only.
Test reports the questions it can see; a wrong token reads “Stack Overflow for Teams rejected the credentials”, a missing slug or token names what to set. Each sync reads the 2,000 most recently active questions with their answers, and honours the site's own pacing requests, so a large first sync takes as long as the site allows. A question that goes quiet past that cap simply stops being re-read: it stays searchable and is never treated as deleted. An answer listing that runs unusually long keeps its highest-voted answers and the sync says the rest wait for a later pass. Revoke the token on the site and the next Test reports it rejected.
Last updated 20 Sep 2026