I am working with outlook Web-Addins. Addin type is "ItemRead". Now I want some thing unrelated to mails as in i want to have button on header as i see the skype button on the top.
Also we can create Addin on mail compose. I am not sure if this is possible to have separate buttons on header separate from mail section
example in the image of skype button.
I have also tried with Outlook Add-in ModuleExtension but cannot seems to be work as expected in outlook web app.
The command controls for invoking add-on are described in manifest part of the add-in. Those controls will be displayed in predefined place of the UI depend on particular client design (Outlook online, Outlook desktop, etc.). As the developer you are able to set control's setting, such as title, icon and so on, but not the place where control will be displayed. This would be up to Microsoft dev/design team.
Bottom line: You are not able to place your control in the specific place of the client interface.
Module extension add-in currently available for Outlook 2016 desktop. There is request to make it available for Outlook online which you can upvote if you like.
Additional Questions:
So is it is not possible right right now?
Module extension add-in for Outlook online is not currently available. To place your control into the place you want is not available, either and never will be. This is because of obvious reasons ... can you imagine what's happen with user interface if every extension will be able to modify the UI as it needs? Total disaster.
Or can you help me with other option ?
Outlook add-in works with single item, as of the controls will appear when item (e-mail, appointment, etc.) selected or compose window invoked, there is nothing you can do.
Also one more thing that is it possible to store a custom global setting value for the outlook organization using addin or any other way?
To store the settings for particular mailbox, user inside organization, there is Office.context.roamingSettings object. If you need some global settings for your app for entire organization, you would set them inside JS part for this particular organization and make the deployment just withing this organization. In case you want to distribute the app via Office store and customize it per organization you may want to write some service which delivers custom settings for add-on on start-up. For example you have rest service which returns custom configuration depend on domain; in this case when add-on invoked you may request custom configuration by sending rest call with user domain and after cache it in mailbox.
Related
Like on the image:
Can't find any info on msdn. Also found sample Outlook add-ins on github, but they don't have icons on email items. Any help is appreciated.
It definitely does not apply to all add-ins installed from the marketplace. I have Salesforce plugin from marketplace and it is not pinned.
The configuration of the area where add-ins are pinned (known as "SurfaceArea") is stored in your mailbox under 7ae974c5-1af7-4923-af3a-fb1fd14dcb7a\OutlookOptions\RawJSON as a JSON object. If you are in a controlled environment, you can add GUID of your add-in to "ReadSurfaceAddins" property. You can use ApplicationImpersonation to do this for other people's mailboxes in your organization.
There are some plugins that pin themselves on install (the two examples I know are both from Microsoft Corporation). I tried to grab the cached manifest of one of those addins, change its GUID (so it won't conflict with the existing app in the store) and sideload it both as a user and via centralized deployment -- no luck, the add-in doesn't pin automatically. So the whatever magic makes those addins pin, does not happen in the manifest, but rather in some app store settings that aren't available to third party developers like us. UPD: I stand corrected, this feature is available to third parties as well - I've seen a third party add-in (Hubspot) that pins itself - again, this is an app store addin, not sideloaded.
You can go to Settings -> View all Outlook Settings -> Customize Actions -> Toolbar to configure the add-ins that appear on the Message compose surface. Additional documentation is here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/customize-actions-on-your-messages-in-outlook-com-c8110dcb-892e-4903-94b3-f6eb41ada2a3
We have developed a couple of excel addins with office-js and are finding that it would be really handy to be able to launch one addin from another addin and even possibly pass some data between the 2. Is the launching at least possible?
If you own both add-ins, you could navigate to one or the other via the URL's you placed in your manifest file. This could allow you to launch another add-in, however it would be inside the same task pane.
You could also pass data between both apps via url query parameters.
I've done this before when I made an add-in that was a landing page for other add-ins. When you clicked on a button for another tool, it would navigate to another add-in (which was a separate project) and pass the previous tool as a parameter in the URL so you could navigate back to where you came from.
It'd also be possible to share data on a private sheet inside Excel.
This would be security issue when an add-in will be able to manipulate others. For this obvious reason this is not possible.
Usually I advise to use https://officespdev.uservoice.com/ to request unimplemented feature, but based on your description, Office team most likely won't allow it anyway.
Im creating an Excel add in for a client but after submitting it for review I get feeback like:
1) Nothing appears to happen when we click on all highlighted
buttons
2) On first launch of your add-in, it is not clear what
the value proposition is.
3) It is not clear how to configure or use the add-in, or
how the user would benefit from using the add-in.
The add in is for a specific client so it will only work with sheets with a certain format and data. What can I do to get my add-in accepted?
If your add-in is designed to work for one specific organization only, is AppSource the most appropriate delivery mechanism for you? Have you considered the suitability of Centralized deployment?
If you decide that AppSource is the appropriate delivery mechanism, then the Enterprise policies may be of interest.
Please be aware that the validation team must be able to test the full functionality of the add-in should you wish to publish on AppSource. Please ensure that you provide full testing notes with your submission containing detailed information on the data required to test your add-in.
QTP doesn't recognize item when I disable some add-ins which was checked when I added them in to the repository
Note: I actually selected all the add in's when I added the objects into repository - .Net, JAVA, Oracle, Siebel, SAP, Web Services, Silverlight, ActiveX(I know I am a Noob). When I just select Web right now and run the script, it's unable to recognize the object and when I add the object again(with only Web checked), it's being added as a new object and is being recognized when I run it.
So my question is what is the relationship of an object with respect to add in? How does it go on to affect the property of the same object?
Add-Ins are Collections of Pre-Defined Object Types
The add-in contains built-in property sets for a specific group of related UI objects. This helps QTP identify the runtime objects more effectively for a specific type of application.
For instance, it's quite predictable that browser-based applications will be using the standard HTML elements, so the basic web objects (i.e. Page, Frame, WebButton, WebList) have already been defined in advance inside the Web add-in.
The Evil in Enabling All Add-Ins
Most likely, you're facing the issue because all add-ins were enabled during recording. QTP had the option to choose from any of the pre-defined objects in all of those add-ins as it sees fit. You could have ended up with an object repository that's a hybrid of object types found in multiple add-ins.
We faced this similar issue before where a web button (i.e. html input type="button") was recorded as a SAPWebButton. That's because all add-ins were enabled during recording and no one noticed. It worked fine until we disabled all other add-ins, except for the Web add-in. Since the Web add-in only knows about a WebButton not a SAPWebButton, this resulted into identification problems.
Prevention and Fix
The correct approach is to decide which add-in is most appropriate for your application type before recording, enable it and disable the rest.
You will have to manually update the problematic object via Update Run Mode. If there's too much, you'd be better off recording from scratch.
I’ve got a moss document centre website with FBA and AD authentication enabled. After creating a picture library I seem to have reduced functionality when accessing the site through the FBA URL.
I’ve compared the web.config files from each IIS website and they are the same (apart from added FBA information that's required).
Here's two pictures to illustrate what I mean.
This picture shows the options available in the picture library when accessing the website through AD authentication:
alt text http://www.abbeylegal.com/Downloads/2006-07-26/Ad%20Authentication.jpg
This picture shows the reduced options available in the picture library when accessing the website through FBA authentication:
alt text http://www.abbeylegal.com/Downloads/2006-07-26/FBA%20Authentication.jpg
Anyone else seen this behaviour? I find it really strange.
This functionality is by design. As per Microsoft:
When you configure a zone to use forms authentication, the Enable Client Integration box is cleared by default. If a zone is configured in this way, the following changes occur in functionality:
Support for remote interfaces is turned off. That includes WebDAV, SOAP, and Microsoft Office FrontPage remote procedure calls (RPC). Some functionality is not available, such as Web folders or the Web services for accessing content in that site.
Some toolbar items no longer appear:
New Document
Open in Outlook
Open In Windows Explorer
Export to Spreadsheet
Open with Database Program
Explorer View option is hidden.
Create an Access View option is hidden.
In picture libraries, the following functionality is removed:
Upload Multiple
Edit Picture
Download
Send To
On the Edit Control Block (ECB) menu, the drop-down menu that appears when you click - items in document libraries, the following items are removed:
Edit in Word
Edit in Excel
Edit in PowerPoint
Discuss
Connect To Outlook
In slide libraries the following functionality is removed:
Publish Slide
Send to PowerPoint
Also, syncing SharePoint data with Microsoft Office Outlook no longer works.
Form Authentication will reduce some functionality such as in document library. We won't see the new document, be able to edit it in the spreadsheet, be able to open it with Windows Explorer etc.
For that, we need to enable the feature called Client Integration in Authentication
Provider. After enabling that, we'll get all menu items.