Feature Requests and Feedback
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Office Add-ins should run in Edge, not IE11
At the moment Word runs Add-ins in IE11
IE11 doesnt support ES2016, and is therefore much harder to develop for than all of the other newer browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge).
Word should run Add-ins in Edge
115 votesHi Fergus, thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
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JS API function to prevent user from sheet interaction
It would be extremely helpful in certain cases to prevent user to interact with the sheet/workbook while some action in the task pane is required or when some process is running (e.g. when some complex sheet changes are being performed - formatting, inserting columns, inserting data, charts....).
30 votesThank you for your input! We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
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Add Workbook.CancelEdit or WorkSheet.CancelEdit to get around GeneralExceptionError when cell being edited
It would be great to have a CancelEdit or have the Range Select / setting range values automatically cancel the editing and avoid this error which seems to have no workaround.
Whenever a cell is being edited by the user, any attempt to select a different range or update values in different ranges causes the General Exception error. There is no method to Cancel the Edit (essentially just need to send the ESCAPE keystroke to the workbook).
To reproduced just double-click on a cell to go into edit mode and then execution of this code fails:
Excel.run(function (ctx) {
//this…44 votesHi Brian. Thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated! We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
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set group as owner of another group from azure graph
Allow to set group as owner of another group from Graph
1 votePankaj, thank you for the feedback! We’ve added the capability to assign a group as an owner of another group to our backlog.
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Outlook REST API 2 Mark Message as Junk / Spam
Hello,
I've tried Googling it, but to no avail, so I am here asking for solution to this (seemingly) straightforward question: How do you mark a message as 'Junk' using Outlook REST API 2.0 ? Currently, the API documentation link does not provide any help in this, only thing I could do is as follows, which basically "moves" a message from Inbox to Junk Email, not really ideal.
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Please see my StackOverflow question, where it is suggested I add it to this forum.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40208579/outlook-rest-api-2-mark-message-as-junk-spam
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Regards.6 votesFawad, thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. This is definitely something we’d like to get to and it is on our roadmap, but we don’t have a timeline yet to commit to. We’ll keep you posted with updates.
Thanks!
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Office.js support comapre document functionality equivalent to Application.CompareDocuments
VBA COM Object model supports Application.CompareDocuments to compare and merge word documents. Office.js lacks this capability. Please support this through Office.js
86 votesHi Pankaj, thank you for your input! We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
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Add Office Javascript API support for resources of type room in appointments/meetings
Currently, the requiredAttendees methods setAsync and getAsync have serious issues when resources of room type are used. I will add below my review of the three methods exposed on requiredAttendees object (picture in the link):
http://s17.postimg.org/satnvyrz3/Required_Attendees_Calls_Behavior.png
314 votesThanks for your feedback! This is in our backlog but lower priority than a few other features. We’ll keep you posted with status updates.
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Support for shared mailboxes
Office 365 shared mailboxes are very useful. Unfortunately, they do not load outlook web add-ins right now: see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35059067/make-outlook-add-ins-working-with-office-365-shared-mailboxes/35065215
This would be terrific to have add-ins for such mailboxes especially for all CRMs related apps767 votesBenoit, thanks for your feedback! This is an interesting idea and we’ve added it to our backlog.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Add "Change Tracking" API
Need a Change Tracking API in Word.
168 votesThank you for your input! We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Support for hiding/showing task pane through the Office Javascript API
Currently, there is no ability to hide or show the task pane from the Office Javascript API.
37 votesThank you for the feedback! We’ve added this to our backlog and we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Support dynamic content in Add-in commands ribbon dropdown menu
It would be very useful if add-ins dropdown menu could contain dynamically generated items. Now the displayed content in the ribbon dropdown need to be hardcoded even for sub-menus which limit the capabilities of add-ins commands.
See question on stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36315571/dynamic-content-in-add-in-command-with-ribbon-dropdown-menu95 votesBenoit, thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. This is definitely something we’d like to get to soon, but unfortunately there are a few other higher priority items. We’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Extend Word Javascript api to close the editing window
In a workflow scenario (not sharepoint workflow, something custom) where we want to have a button in a Word Add-In taskpane to close the Word Online window after saving the file. In this button we initiate a next workflow step by saving the document, initiate the next step by e.g. setting a flag in sharepoint and closing the document editing session of the user.
This could either be an office general api or a word specific api (this is where we need it the most).
75 votesHi Ernst, thank you for your input! We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Allow Officejs to open external excel workbook programatically
There should be a way to open a external excel workbook by providing URL for that file on excel online via officejs. so that user can open a template stored on some other server which contains desired formatting and named-ranges which can be modified on Excel Online
39 votesMaulik, thanks for your feedback! The nature and design of file-open action is still not determined.
As always, when the design draft is ready, we’ll present the design for your review under the open-spec branches of repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Provide an Add-in IDE inside Office applications with macro recorder
Do you want to popularize Office JS Add-in development? Why don't you do as you did with VBA? There is a macro recorder and the VBE (VBA's IDE).
Anyone with a regular Office instalation can be a "developer" - just press Alt+F11 and start coding. This is a great incentive for begginer programmers.
If you recluse Office JS programming to Visual Studio it'll be no use even if the framework is great, because there'll be no adoption by the community.
You have to tease your customers' mind so he'll get addicted in macro recording and will want to learn more…30 votesHi Felipe,
Thanks for your suggestion. This is actually on our backlog already. We understand the importance and how much people love macro recorder. So stay tuned and it is coming.
Thanks,
Office Developer Team -
Invoke built-in ribbon commands from Javascript
We are able to invoke a built-in Ribbon command in VBA by using:
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso(“Copy”)
Could we have a way to invoke built-in functionality from Javascript
18 votesThank you for the feedback! We’ve added this to our backlog and we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Enable binding keyboard shortcuts to a button in Office Add-in or a function in JavaScript
I have implemented an Excel Add-in, where there are buttons. Clicking on a button will trigger a JavaScript function.
It will be much convenient to allow users to bind shortcut to a button / function. Users will be able to trigger them more quickly when they need.
There may be several possibilities as solutions: 1) provide a mean in JavaScript API to bind a shortcut to a button / function; so it will be the job of the add-in developer to bind a shortcut 2) provide a mean to allow users to bind a shortcut to a button in an…
12 votesThank you for the feedback! We’ve added this to our backlog and we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Expose Workbook events via Excel JavaScript API
Similar to Document.SelectionChanged event, the following Workbook-level events would be useful to have exposed via the JavaScript API (in no particular order):
Activate,Deactivate
BeforeSave,AfterSave
BeforeClose
Shutdown
SheetActivate,SheetDeactivate
SheetBeforeDoubleClick
SheetBeforeRightClick
SheetChange
SheetSelectionChange147 votesThank you for your request!
We are collecting API requirements for developing Office Add-ins in Excel, specifically for Events API.
If you are considering moving an existing COM/VSTO/VBA Add-in to Office Add-in, or creating a new Office Add-in in Excel, and have events requirements, please fill the survey below and help us focus on the right set of events and design. We truly appreciate your help!
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Office Extensibility Team -
Allow Outlook add-in commands to be used on selections of multiple items
Currently an add-in command will disable if multiple Outlook mail items are selected. It would be really useful to be able run certain commands by iterating over a collection of the selected items.
144 votesThanks for your feedback! This is in our backlog but lower priority than a few other features. We’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Support an option to insert content pane from add-in commands
Recently we got an option to insert task panes using add-in commands which is really nice feature. It would be very useful to have an option to insert content panes in Excel, Word and Power Point as well.
3 votesThank you for the feedback! We’ve added this to our backlog and we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
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Add a method to copy a sheet with all data and formatting because there are no back-up or undo options for add-ins.
Since there is no way to cancel the changes made by an add-in, we need to provide users with backup options.
The current version of JavaScript API for Excel doesn't have a method for copying a sheet with its data and formatting, there are no elegant and fast workarounds available.
Could you please let us know if it's possible to add this method to JavaScript API for Excel?
114 votesRenat, thank you for the feedback! This is in our product roadmap and we plan to implement the API in the near future. This will be available as part of the promise based API set.
As always, when the design draft is ready, we’ll present design for review under the open-spec branches of this repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team
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