I am learning Office add-n and have just been practicing to make a button in excel. I can't show the new button in the excel ribbon even copy and run the complete add-in project from GitHub. Can anyone help?
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Tuan
You need to make sure the following applies:
Office Desktop products must be versioned 16 or higher
In your XML, you need to make sure that you are making all HttpS requests. It must be secure
Make sure that you are not missing any closing tag />.
Also you should be able to see the changes on 365 since they are using the latest version.
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I am creating a custom advanced PDF/HTML template. I switched between WYSIWYG editor and source code editor and maybe saved. So now my template no longer shows up properly when try to preview it.
Does anyone know how I can fix this so that the preview shows my
changes as I make them?
Can anyone suggest what I can use going
forward so this doesn't happen to me again (ex: an IDE where I can
preview before moving code into NetSuite)?
Also, I did not save my source code before editing it since I thought NS was just making a
copy of the code in the custom template. So if anyone knows where I can get a copy of the
original source code for the original template that may help as well.
Thanks in advance for any help.
To answer your third question, I am assuming you started from one of the standard Advanced PDF/HTML templates and hit customize? If so, you should be able to get the source code for the standard template the same way: hit customize, then switch to source code view.
Remember that NetSuite does warn you that once you switch to source code, switching back may not work for that template. I generally switch to source code mode and do all my work in that mode. I use a sample transaction to preview the changes, or hit the "preview" button in the template editor.
I am not aware of any editor that will let you preview this in WYSIWYG mode, but I use Visual Studio Code to edit the templates. They now also have a SuiteCloud integration plug in, but it's a bit buggy. WebStorm is probably ok, but is not free. There is also Eclipse which is free, but they are deprecating its NetSuite plug in, and the upload to account functions don't work anymore because of the security enhancement to authentication.
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.
I am looking for how to modify the state of office app addin command,but get no results.Can anyone tell me is it possible to dynamically disable or hide the addin command button in Office ribbon after being loaded.It seems the Manifest file only load initially,and can't be changed after that? Thank you!
No. At present, the add-in command button only control by the menifest. It is not able to disable dynamically. You can submit the feedback from here if you require this feature.
As a workaround, you may also consider developing an VSTO add-in. However it only works for the Windows platform. Here is an helpful thread.
I'm trying out the new style JavaScript based office add-ins and can't see how I can add the add-in launcher button to the ribbon.
I know that Command add-ins which can add tabs etc are not released yet, I'm just talking about a button that will launch my add-in.
It's a TaskPaneApp.
It seems to be possible because (in my version of office 16 at least) I can see that under the Insert tab, Wikipedia add-in has it own button in the Add-In group.
Currently I've just added a Shared Drive as a trusted location and am launching the app from there. As this is an internal app, it's likely to stay there.
Thanks
You just need to add some elements to your manifest file:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/mt621545.aspx
Make sure you are using the latest version of Word, Excel or PowerPoint; it must be 16 or higher.
Also, make sure to use HTTPS requests.
The XML manifest is super sensitive.
Look for closing /> for all the tags, because you might be missing them somewhere.
You could also use this NPM module which is supported by Microsoft to validate your XML file.
Do any of you have advice on methods for deploying an office VSTO addin, especially Excel, that makes it easy to update and deploy the document as well as the addin.
I have a document level addin for Excel 2010 that I created using VSTO. I currently deploy it using click once. However, this has a few problems. The first problem is that I publish it to ftp then users install it from my website. Since the document and addin are downloaded from the internet, I obviously have trouble getting proper permission for the addin to run and the document to be trusted. Currently I just have users manually adjust permissions and grant access when the solution is installed. That part works and is fine, but if any of you have suggestions on how to automate this that would be great.
The second problem, the main one I am wanting help with in this post, is deploying updates. I generally like using clickonce because of its ease of installation and automatic update features. The solutions I develop are used in rapidly growing fast changing companies, which means I am often making updates. Click once makes it easy enough to update the "code" or addin itself. I just have it automatically check for updates when it is started, and if there are updates it will prompt the user to download them. But what about the document? My solution doesn't only include the code. It also includes the highly customized Excel workbook.
When the solution is initially installed a copy of the workbook is just downloaded to the local computer. But what about after it is deployed to dozens of computers? Does a document level change (adding a column for example) mean going to each computer and downloading the updated workbook manually?
Surely there is a better way to automatically deploy updated versions of the workbook. Any suggestions?
Here are a few ideas I thought of:
Use some installer other than clickonce. Any suggestion on one that allows easy automatic updates?
Somehow package the workbook as an application resource. I have actually done this in some situations, but not in cases where the document itself included a VSTO addin.
Related to the previous idea. Make a "wrapper" project that includes the workbook & VSTO addin. Then the addin would be launched by clicking on a regular icon on the desktop, which would download the workbook (if an update was needed) then open it in Excel. I would prefer that method of launch over simply opening the workbook anyway.
Note: No user data needs to be preserved in the Workbook when an update is done. The old version could simply be overwritten by the new one. The workbook gets all its data from an SQL server.
You could use a Visual Studio Setup Project which leverages Windows Installer. See this deployment walkthrough guide on using VSTO 4.0.
In Visual Studio 2012, support for Setup Projects is being deprecated in favor of InstallShield LE which is another alternative.