I have written an add-in for Microsoft Excel. The add-in works great on the web-based Excel, but I get the error below when I try to run it in the desktop version
This happens when the plugin tries to authenticate the user using a popup window. Anyone encountered this issue ?
Thanks
Matteo
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The web store 'Open In Excel' button does not work for Mac users. Excel indicates that it is downloading some file but then nothing happens. I'm sure expected behavior is that the workbook should open and install the add-in to Excel. Here is a video showing this, on Excel v16.40 (latest version as of this writing):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MqlZyqhYe9MfOzJN_sjpFwyPHOn4LuPD/view?usp=sharing
I became aware of this issue because some of our customers have contacted us, asking why the add-in wasn't working. Who knows how many potential customers we have lost because they simply thought the add-in wasn't supported on their system and moved on.
Is this a problem with our add-in code? Is anyone at Microsoft aware of this issue?
Just faced with strange behavior on Outlook for Mac. When a user creates an event, add attendees, save and close, then select it and press the button "Forward" it opens a new message window with disabled my Outlook Add-In (open Add-in button is disabled). When I do the same on Outlook for Window the Add-in button is enabled and Add-in works fine.
What is the reason to change behavior on Mac and Windows? Is it an issue?
Stable repro, I use the same o365 account (there is no difference between the Add-in manifest then), Outlook for Mac 16.36 (20030502), Outlook for Windows 2006 (build 13001.20384 Click-to-Run) Current chanel.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry for confusion earlier. We do not support add-ins in the event forward scenario by design in Outlook Mac.
However, read mode add-ins are supported in event forward scenario (with the exception of item.getBody APIs) in the New Outlook for Mac, which is currently available in our Insiders program. You can get access to it by signing up for the Insiders program here.
The Add-in was working fine under Internet Explorer 11 and I was able to reliably observe and debug its behavior in Visual Studio 2017. Recently after some automatic Windows/Office updates, I noticed that iexplore.exe was not being used as the host browser. This resulted
in not being able to know what process to attach to for debugging.
At this point, out of desperation I executed the following steps to to set JS_DEBUG:
In a windows power shell window executed command
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Win32WebViewHost
The command listed the package information including full package name for Win32WebViewHost , which was
Microsoft.Win32WebViewHost_10.0.18362.449_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
I then executed the following
setx JS_DEBUG Microsoft.Win32WebViewHost_10.0.18362.449_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
After some poking I noticed that WWAHost.exe was being used as the browser. Now the add-in is deploying fine but is encountering strange errors.
Is it possible that the above steps resulted in WWAHost.exe as the browser being used to host the add-in. So wondering how to undo the above setting so Internet Explorer 11 is the browser used by Excel to host the add-in.
You cannot control which browser is used to host the add-in. Office decides that. For details how this is determined, see the article: Browsers used by Office Add-ins.
I have a client who is asking me to fix an issue they are having with Microsoft Project.
The issue is that they are attempting to open a task list on SharePoint Online via the 'Open with Project' button in the ribbon, but after the alert asking them if they would like to open it in Project 2016 pops up nothing happens.
I have set up a fresh SharePoint environment and tried it at my end, but I get the same problem. There is no error message (as an alert or in the console) and I have wracked my brain and come up dry.
What I have tried:
New SharePoint instance.
Fresh Microsoft Project install.
Looked at the site/site collection features
Multiple browsers (specifically Chrome, IE and Firefox)
The issue is the same no matter what I do.
Has anyone else come across this problem before and, if so, how did you solve it?
Are you using 2016 Click-to-run (C2R) or MSI version? Can you share the build number from winproj.exe?
If you are on C2R version, can you try making the following registry edits (save the following as a .reg file and run it) and see if it helps?
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides]
"ofhdegpklv1irq0"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides]
"ofhdegpklv1irq0"=dword:00000000
A colleague attempts to edit an Excel spreadsheet hosted in SharePoint and gets the following error message. Why? and how to solve it?
Sorry, but to open this workbook, your computer must be running a
supported version of Microsoft Excel and a browser that supports
opening files directly from Office Web Apps.
My colleagues has the same version of Office and IE as me (Office 2010 and IE9), but when I attempt to open the same document, it works without with error message. So what is the real cause of this error message, and how to resolve it? The version of SharePoint is SharePoint 2013.