We developed an App for Office (Word and Excel) and we have it available for users now. People install it locally but to get to it they need to click so many things (INSERT > My Apps > MY ORGANIZATION > icon...), which is quite frustrating, and difficult to find and remember.
Is there a way to add our icon to the Office Ribbon? Or any other way that will allow single-click launch?
There is an update, it is possible to add button (exactly "commands") to office add-in apps.
Currently supported platforms:
Office Desktop 2016 (build 16.0.6769.0000 or later)
Office Online
See Dev Center and git .
There is no alternative way unfortunately.
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There are instructions online for sideloading an addin into Excel for Windows.
However, I get stuck on step 4. Namely, there is no Manage My Add-in's button anywhere within the MY ADD-INS page that I can find.
Does this button still exist somewhere, or are the instructions out of date? If the button is gone, is there any other easy way of side-loading an add-in into Excel?
There are other instructions online for sideloading an add-in, but they are much more complicated and hard to follow.
Thanks for any information!
The page that you linked to is for sideloading in Excel on the web, not Windows. For Excel on Windows, see Sideload Office Add-ins for testing. BTW, its best to work with the help on the learn.microsoft.com domain. The GitHub repo that you linked to is the source files and its harder to find your way around there.
All the questions/answers I have seen so far are old and do not provide a definitive answer.
Also what can I use locally and what can I use online?
what can I use locally and what can I use online?
You may use your VSTO and VBA add-ins for Office Desktop application on Windows.
Office applications on Web (online) has extensibility via Office.js API. Microsoft current name is "Office Add-ins", you may try them by loading into your Office application (excel) from Office Store. If you want to develop add-in based on this technology I would suggest to start over here: Office Add-ins platform overview. The conception behind of this technology is "build once, use everywhere where Office runs". That means your add-in may work for Office Desktop on Windows, Office Desktop on Mac, Online versions as well as some mobile platforms (subject to availability)
I was trying to find a way to publish an outlook add in to office store.
But I found out that we can publish only office apps and not the add ins to the office store.
Hence I wanted to know what is the difference between an office app and an office add in?
And is there an easy way to convert an already built add in to an app?
Or will I have to implement the functionality all over again, while developing the app?
Hence I wanted to know what is the difference between an office app and an office add in?
Not so long ago (at #build2015) MS named Office Apps as "add-ins" as well. Classic Office add-ins are based on the IDTExtensibility2 interface (COM). They can't be run on any device or web browser. Office COM add-ins are for the desktop editions of MS Office (x86 and x64). COM add-ins can be implemented using a wide range of programming languages: from unmanaged C++ or Delphi to managed ones (C#, VB.NET and etc.). On the opposite side Office Apps (also called as add-ins now) are a small web based applications (HTML, CSS, JS) that have a limited access to the object model (typically related to the selection or opened item).
And is there an easy way to convert an already built add in to an app?
No, they are entirely different type of applications.
Or will I have to implement the functionality all over again, while developing the app?
Yes, you need to develop an Office App from the ground.
It is not lear what Office application you are talking about, but in case of Outlook you may find the Selecting an API or technology for developing solutions for Outlook 2013 article in MSDN helpful.
Sorry for the confusion. "Add-in" is just the new name for "App". So, you should be able to publish your add-in (built using HTML and JavaScript) to the Store. This is different from the really old COM add-ins.
How to fix this error in SharePoint:
"The list cannot be displayed in
Datasheet view. A datasheet component
compatible with Windows SharePoint
Services is not installed, your
browser does not support ActiveX
controls, or support for ActiveX
controls
It started to days ago, for apparently no reason. ActiveX is enabled on this site and I had everything working fine so far. Not sure what went wrong.
Thanks,
... from IE check out your Internet Options, and look under 'Programs'->'Manage Add-Ons'
When I had this problem it was because an add-on was missing or disabled... * thinks * "Microsoft Office List 12.0" or something.
I was getting the below in SharePoint 2010.
The Standard View of your list is being displayed because your browser
does not support running ActiveX controls.
Turns out the site (master page) was being rendered in IE9 mode and the datasheet supports only up to IE8.
The datasheet mode can be used temporarily by switching the Document mode and the User agent string both to IE 8, or permanently by using the meta tag X-UA-Compatible IE=8.
This is known issue and you have to install the hotfix provided by Microsoft.
The issue is addressed in the below specified link along with the URL for the hotfix.
http://www.himmeltech.com/blog/fix-for-datasheet-view-issue-error-in-sharepoint-2010/
Let me know whether the suggested solution fixes your issue
Please install below data connectivity component to resolve this issue.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23734
This link helped me and it worked fine. Our environment was Windows 7 64bit and MS office 64bit as well, after installing this connectivity tools, user had a option edit the data sheet view in sharepoint.
I ran into the same issue after updating to Office 365 but remaining with IE 11 and Sharepoint 2010.
Issue:
using a 64-bit version of Office with a 32-bit version of IE
Reference: Technet
Resolution: Installed 2007 Office System Driver: Data
Connectivity Components
Seems like a client/browser problem.. do you have Microsoft Office installed? Did you change security settings in Internet Explorer?
My environment is SP2010 enterprise and after trying several solutions, I realized that the user that could not see the views in Datasheet style was because did not have installed "Microsoft Access" that is required when you are using views in datasheet style. So the solution for me was to upgrade that specific user from Office Standard to Office Professional
For me, I performed the following and it worked for me:
Open Control Panel and open Programs and Features
Find your instance of Microsoft Office and select it
Click change at the top
On the dialog that comes up, click Add or Remove Features and then continue
Make sure Microsoft Access Web Datasheet Component is installed under Office Tools/Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Support
Even if it is showing as installed, click Continue.
Let everything install, close any office programs out, then try again
These steps worked for me.
We have a SharePoint WSS site and some of our users on on the Mac OSX platform. Are there any tips or tricks to get a similar experience to Windows with document shares and calendars on the Mac?
Edit: Browsing a SharePoint WSS site on a Mac, whether using Firefox or Safari, has a very similar look and feel as it does on Windows IE. The similar experience I am looking for has to do with integrating the calendars, document shares, etc. into the desktop.
For example, with IE you can go to a calendar and select "Actions -> Connect to Outlook" and it will make the calendar visible and manageable from within Outlook.
Is there any way to get the Mac to work similarly?
Unfortunately, the "full" Sharepoint Experience is limited to running Internet Explorer 6/7 and Office 2007.
On the Mac, I recommend using Firefox (Camino?) which seems to work a bit better than Safari.
Edit: When you say "Similar experience", what exactly are you missing? I don't have any Mac here, but I was under the impression that Office 2008 will have a working integration with Sharepoint as well.
Office 2008 allows limited connectivity to MOSS. However there is no Mac OS browser yet that is completely compatible to MOSS.
I do have it on good authority the Microsoft Mac BU team is working with the MOSS team to see this changing in future versions of the platform, specifically around the Safari support.
ActiveX is used to enable the bridge between MOSS and Office, and as ActiveX is only on Windows, you will find that you cannot get the full experience if you do not use Windows as your OS.
Yes, Sharepoint looks to client installs of Office applications and Active X in order to fully integrate.