I want to bind a dropdown which is in ribbon.xml file like below, I am not sure how to add items in dropdown. I tried with onAaction event but it is not even firing. any idea how I can proceed with this?
<group id="Family" label="Family Group">
<dropDown id="drpFamily" label="Family" showImage="false" onAction="BindDropdown" />
</group>
All Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) controls are described in depth in the following series of articles:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
Also you may find the Extending the User Interface in Outlook 2010 article helpful.
See How to dynamically add items in Ribbon dropdown and Adding items to RibbonDropDown at runtime for more information.
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I am developing an add-in with Office JS, In need add combobox when click in a bottom but I dont see this options it is possible
add combobox with OfficeJS
Combo boxes are not supported in OfficeJS for ribbon customizations. Supported control types are:
Simple buttons - trigger specific actions.
Menus - simple menu dropdown with buttons that trigger actions.
Read more about ribbon customizations in the Add-in commands for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word article.
But you may consider creating a task pane with any controls. There are not limitations on the controls used for task panes (unlike ribbon).
Remember that you can post or vote for an existing feature request on Tech Community where they are considered when the Office dev team go through the planning process.
I'm working in the Office RibbonX Editor and I'm trying to reuse the show|hide gridlines from the view tab on my custom tab. I can't find how to duplicate that in my xml. Any idea's on either how to do that, or where I can find the code used in the view ribbon so I can duplicate that.
This is amazing. Found this site with all the code to replicate and Mso ribbon code from any windows tab and use it in your own custom tab.
Hope this helps others building their own custom ribbons in excel!
Here is what I needed to recreate the show|hide gridlines in the Office Ribbonx Editor:
<box id="SH2" boxStyle="horizontal">
<checkBox idMso="GridlinesExcel" />
<box/>
Cheers
https://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s2/win016.htm
Scroll to the bottom of his page and you'll see links to the following:
Download example files?
But how do you know the RibbonX to duplicate the groups in the Ribbon, in the downloads below you can find the RibbonX to hide the built-in groups and to duplicate them so you have full control to change them the way you want.
Download this file from the Microsoft site: Office 2010: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Download this file from the Microsoft site: Office 2013: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Download this file from the Microsoft site: Office 2016: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
See also github : https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-fluent-ui-command-identifiers
Excel 365 idMso's (9-July-2020), in the example files I duplicate every group in the Ribbon.
Note: Will add the Draw tab soon
Download Excel 365 example files
I've search for this and only been able to find the reverse (i.e. add a custom function to an existing ribbon tab/group).
We have a custom ribbon that we want to add some built-in functions to, e.g. we have a few custom number format buttons and beside those, I want to add the regular built-in increase/decrease decimal places buttons so that user doesn't have to return to the Home tab to change decimal places.
How do I add these built-in buttons to my custom tab/group?
I'm on VS 2017, and so far, my method has been using the visual designer to add controls and then clicking through the 'view code' option to code the functionality.
You can't add a built-in control in the Ribbon Designer. Best you can do is to call the Excel functionality you want to use from within the event handler for your custom button.
If you export the Ribbon to XML you can use native Office controls in the Ribbon XML definition by assigning the Control ID value to a control's idMso attribute. Note that the control type must be the same type (you can't use a dropdown instead of a toggle button, for example).
Here's minimal Ribbon XML that shows the elements for the two buttons you ask about:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui" onLoad="Ribbon_Load">
<ribbon>
<tabs>
<tab idMso="TabAddIns">
<group id="MyGroup"
label="My Group">
<button idMso ="DecimalsIncrease"/>
<button idMso ="DecimalsDecrease"/>
</group>
</tab>
</tabs>
</ribbon>
</customUI>
Depending on the version of Office you're targeting, you can download files of control IDs for the various Office applications. The download is an exe file that unzips to 30+ Excel files listing all (well, most of) the Control IDs. Here are the links to downloads for the current versions of Office:
Office 2010
Office 2013
Office 2016
Office 2007
I'm building a VSTO excel application, using Visual Studio 2013. I have one Large sized Ribbon button in one column, next to two Regular sized in another column. What I want is to fill the vertical space in the regular buttons column equally.
To see an example of what I want to do, see the "Calculation" group of "FORMULAS" tab in excel. My regular buttons are stacking on the top, but i want them to fill the empty space just like the "Calculate Now" and the "Calculate Sheet" are doing in this ribbon.
How do I do this?
Thanks.
The Fluent UI doesn't provide any property or attribute for that.
Read more about the Fluent UI (Ribbon UI) in the following series of articles:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
Not all features (controls) are available for external developers.
I'm not sure if you will be able to do this. I was also looking for this but didn't find a solution. The ribbon is limited for programmers in certain features, for example you cannot make a menu with headers (like the insert chart in excel) or in ribbon galleries (like the chart styles),... I think this button fill is also one of these features.
I need to show some custom content in the Ribbon bar that is not a button.
My question is if it's possible to show something that is not a button, and show instead some values that I need to set on load.
Thanks!
I believe that is not supported out of the box feature neither possible with CRM 2011 Visual Ribbon Editor.
But you can still make it with unsupported ribbon changes on XML and Onload javascript function. How to Edit ribbon.