I'm developing an Office Excel Task Pane add-in, and I have the need to import the content of external files (other spreadsheets and PDF files) into the active workbook.
On VBA (also VB and C#), workbooks could be open with the Workbooks.Open() method, but it is not available on Office/Excel JS library.
So, how may I open files from Office/Excel Task Pane add-ins?
Thanks in advance!
At this point in time our APIs do not support opening external applications.
Please feel free to submit your feature request at https://officespdev.uservoice.com/ and we will take it into account for future APIs.
Regards,
Philip, Developer on the Microsoft Office Extensibility team
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(Desktop version) I'm new to using the javascript API for excel, but is it possible to create an excel add-in and share with other users without having to add the add-in to an app source etc? Can it be embedded in the excel file etc. I'd like to share scripts with other users the same way that I can share VBA if it's possible?
for security reasons as well as to make manageability of your add-ins easier, we do not store the code within the workbook, like VBA. Instead, the javascript is hosted on your website and we have a reference to your add-in saved in the workbook.
What this means, is to get a similar experience to VBA, you must either have the add-in hosted on app source (which will make it accessible via the Office Store), OR each user in an organization must have the add-in deployed or available to them (here we recommend centralized deployment as it will give the most robust experience).
This has all the current deployment options you can use for Office add-ins: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/publish/publish
thanks!
Created a workbook in Excel desktop that uses buttons and hyperlinks to run VBA functions. When
workbook loaded in browser-based Office 365, buttons do not appear and clicking hyperlinks gives
Sorry, we couldn't open this link. The link address may be invalid, or you may not have permission to open it.
How do I get desktop hyperlink and button functionality to port to Office 365?
You need to develop a Web add-in if you want to get your extra functionality working everywhere, see Excel add-ins overview. VBA is for Windows desktop applications only.
I am creating an Office 365 plugin for Excel using Angular. I use Office-JS library to interact with Excel. My plugin appears in the Excel task-pane.
I want to know that my add-in is open/close in task-pane via code, I want to know as I need to solve some issue related to this in my add-in.
Unfortunately our API doesn't provide the event for Taskpane open/close. which is a known feature gap.
So would you please provide us feedback via https://officespdev.uservoice.com/forums/224641-feature-requests-and-feedback?category_id=163563 and upvote for this feature. Thanks for your support.
I want to make an Excel Online file, then post its link or embed it in my website. Clicking on that will open the file in Excel Online. Moreover, I want certain Excel add-ins to be installed and even launched automatically.
Does anyone know if it is possible?
If it's impossible with Excel Online, is it possible for a normal .xlsx file (I will make it, and opening it in Windows systematically leads to install an add-in and even launch it)?
If you're looking to automatically open a task pane add-in when the Excel file is opened, check out this article in the documentation: https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/design/automatically-open-a-task-pane-with-a-document?product=excel. The Office OOXML EmbedAddin sample provides an example of implementing the autoopen functionality that's described in the article.
Along with Kim's answer to automatic opening of a task pane add-in, you can using OneDrive to handle opening a file in Excel Online using Microsoft Graph.
You're start by uploading you're .xlsx file to OneDrive using an Upload Session. Once you're file is on OneDrive, you can retrieve it's meta-data for the DriveItem. Included in this meta-data will be a webUrl property. This is a URL that, when navigated too, will open your file using Excel Online.
Is it possible to access Office.context.document.settings from VSTO?
We have an VSTO AddIn that currently writes to the CustomXML in Excel workbooks. We would like to make it Napa/O365 compatible. Since Napa can't read CustomXML parts in Excel we want to write to Office.context.document.settings, hence the question above.
Or is there a better way to share storage between VSTO and Napa in a Excel workbook?
Ron.
The JavaScript for Office API can't be used in a VSTO solution, as it requires a web context. Your desktop add-in solution would have to be ported to use the web-based APIs and tools.