I have a task to add a button (Export) in Outlook Search tab, after instant search or advanced search i have to grab the result and export to csv file by clicking export button.
I am using VSTO with visual studio 2010 and office 2010.
Any suggestions will be very helpful.
At first, you need to place a button on the right place.
In your xml that will be returned to outlook, specify the right insertBeforeMso code to make sure your button is where you want it. Also find the right idMso for the tab you putting it to.
Here is an example of putting a button on main ribbon of email message window.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui" >
<ribbon>
<tabs>
<tab idMso="TabNewMailMessage">
<group id="Your ribbon group ID" label="Your button group Label" insertBeforeMso="GroupClipboard">
<button id="Your button ID" label="Your button label" getImage="icon callback" size="large" onAction="click callback" />
</group>
</tab>
</tabs>
</ribbon>
</customUI>
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I have Excel with particular ribbon tabs. When I open Customize the ribbon Form, in the "Customize Ribbon" section, these Tab and groups are not shown in the custom tabs section, but I can see them in the "Quick Access Toolbar" section which I cannot delete them.
Thanks.
I used the Office RibbonX editor app and edited buttons on the XML file.
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 am brand new to VSTO development.I am using visual studio 2017 community edition.I need to show two buttons as a group in the Home ribbon of outlook.I tried with Ribbon control but it shows as a new tab.I want to show the buttons as a group in the Home ribbon itself
Your controls displayed in the new tab because you specified your own id of the tab. To display your group inside existing tab you need to specify id of this tab. id attribute in this case called idMso. For main explorer tab the idMso is TabHome. Your ribbon.xml may look like ...
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui">
<ribbon>
<tabs>
<tab idMso="TabHome">
<group id="SampleGroup" label="Sample Group">
<button id="Button" label="Sample Button" size="large" />
</group>
</tab>
</tabs>
</ribbon>
</customUI>
If you still puzzle yourself, the great way to start for customization of Office Ribbon XML is to read 3 parts of Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers.
I would like to create a Control like the Pivot-Table in an Add-In XML ribbon.
It's like a clickable button at the top and a dropdown Label opening a menu.
Using the VSTO ribbon designer I am not able to reproduce it.
In fact what I need is the XML for this control.
Any idea ?
You're seeing a splitButton control, which needs to have exactly two children:
a button or toggleButton, and
a menu.
In this case the splitButton has an image set (the pivot table picture) and a child button (with the label 'PivotTable'). The menu then has two children, the two buttons below called PivotTable and PivotChart.
An xml fragment might look like this:
<splitButton id='split' size='large'>
<button id='splitButton' label='SplitButton' image='M' />
<menu id='splitMenu' >
<button id='splitMenuButton1' label='SplitMenuButton1' />
<button id='splitMenuButton2' label='SplitMenuButton2' />
</menu>
</splitButton>
giving me this in Excel:
I'm trying to brand a sharepoint site, and in edit mode I got several checkboxes. In some of the checkboxes I want to display text, how?
ex:
<SharePointWebControls:BooleanField ID="Comments" runat="server" FieldName="Comments" />
Text I want to insert into the checkbox "this is a comment"
I've tried
<SharePointWebControls:BooleanField ID="Comments" runat="server" FieldName="Comments" />this is a comment</SharePointWebControls:BooleanField>
You might consider creating a content type for your page layout. This content type can have a field named "Comments" and with a custom display name.