Feature Requests and Feedback
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Support Azure Conditional Access for Microsoft Graph
A lot of Microsoft products does not work as expected due to the fact the Microsoft Graph does not support Azure Conditional Access. Among the applications I can mention is Microsoft Teams, ToDo, etc. that all rely on the Microsoft Graph and breaks to to limited support or no support for Azure Conditional Access.
/Peter Selch Dahl - Azure MVP
79 votesThis is currently being worked on by the team. More news to come. ^JT
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Pinnable Task Pane Support for Mac and OWA
The Pinnable Task Pane is a great piece of functionality, because as the user is navigating through their Inbox it is cumbersome to have to click a button to open an add-in for each email.
Support for this (at least as per the documentation) is limited only to Outlook 2016 for Windows.
This Idea captures the work to enable this functionality for both OWA and the Mac desktop client.
76 votesThanks for the suggestion!
It is our goal to provide this functionality in Mac and OWA as well. OWA for business users should now have this support.
Cheers,
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Support $count for group members and owners
Currently $count is not supported on `directoryObjects` like users and groups. Although it would be great to know how much members / owners are in a group. The only way right now is via querying the members or owners endpoint of the group and checking the array length. Depending on the number of members, this could lead to multiple calls.
It would be great that the `$count` parameter would be supported so that only one call is required.
42 votesThis work has started for both group members and owners. ^JT
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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
243 votesWe are actively working on this feature and will share more details on availability as soon as we can.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Get license assignment paths like GroupsAssigningLicense property in PowerShell
Allow retrieval of license assignment paths (shown in the Licenses blade of the Microsoft Azure Portal) like the GroupsAssigningLicense property does on license objects in PowerShell. Need to be able to determine if user's license is coming from a group licensing assignment ("inherited") or direct. Then must remove the direct licenses which have a corresponding inherited license. There's a good write-up on how to do this from PowerShell (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-licensing-ps-examples#remove-direct-licenses-for-users-with-group-licenses), but the critical piece (the GroupsAssigningLicense property) is missing from MS Graph.
With the introduction of group licensing, this feature would allow our self-service licensing app to prevent sending…
47 votesThis work has been started, there is currently no target date for this to be In Preview. ^JT
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Programmatically disable/hide the Ribbon menu
We are in the process of development for Office 365 based Add-ins for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
It would be really nice, if we could have a way to disable/hide the ribbon buttons based on some data against that particular user.26 votesNaveed, thanks for your feedback! We are at the early stages of designing and prototyping this feature. We look forward to sharing the details as soon as we can.
As always, when the design draft is ready, we’ll present it for your review under the open-spec branches in the following repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs.Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Insert hyperlink into Excel in Apps for Office
Make it possible to insert hyperlink into Excel
3 votesMikhail, thanks for your feedback! This is a very popular feature. This feature is now available as public preview. Please check out the open spec docs at this location to get more details: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js-docs/blob/ExcelJs_OpenSpec/reference/excel/range.md
Additionally, you can try out the new API features by using the built-in code snippets that are available in Script Lab https://github.com/OfficeDev/script-lab/blob/master/README.md. In Script Lab, you’ll find samples that use preview APIs listed in the Preview APIs category:
Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Add the possibility to specify authorizations on email fields more precisely
Currently, you can specify Read.all. That gives you access to everything in the email. For a company admin, it opens all the content you might not need. For B2B apps, companies have sensitive content and security policies, : it would be great to be able to specify sub-parameters for Read.all, listing fields you ask for access and those you won't.
Clear example : Read.all / everything BUT body --> the company admin is sure that with this scope, the app can't access sensitive data .3 votesWe have just started this in this months sprint. The new permission will be Mail.ReadBasic and will allow you to access mail messages without access to the body or their attachments.
There is further investigation into whether we can provide more granular permission scopes where developers can request specific properties they want access to.
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For Appointments we need a property telling us if the current item is part a Recurring Meeting Series (In Compose mode)
For Appointments we need a property telling us if the current item is part a Recurring Meeting Series (In Compose mode)
Also we need to know if it is the actual Recurring meeting series we are currently editing38 votesHi Jørgen,
Thank you for your suggestion! This work has been started. Once it is completed we will provide an update and a link to the API information within our documentation.Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
API to point to next and previous paragraph from the current paragraph
It would be very useful for processing large document to have the ability to access previous and next paragraph from any paragraph object.
Thanks6 votesThank you for the feedback! We’re happy to let you know that we’ve started work on this.
As always, we present the design for review under the open-spec branches of this repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs. Please review it and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Opt out or in of saving add-in to document
Saving a document with an add-in panel open, saves the add-in along with the document.
The next time the document is opened the add-in opens with it. If the add-in is not installed it will be suggested to the user.
In cases where an add-in generates content for the user the add-in may not be meant for user's clients in which case it would be great to have this functionality as either opt out or opt in.
3 votesThank you for the feedback! We’re happy to let you know that we’ve started work on this.
As always, we present the design for review under the open-spec branches of this repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs. Please review it and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Need content Controls found on desktop Excel and Word applications to be avaiable in web version of Excel and Word
Content controls like found in the desktop version of Excel Word need to also exist on the Web version of Excel Word and function the same. The same controls should be able to be used on the desktop version of Excel and Word and the Web version of Excel and Word. This would allow moving Excel and Word files containing content controls between the desktop and Office 365's OneDrive and SharePoint sites. The Workbooks and documents with content controls would work the same in both environments (desktop and Online). This is a critical need!
43 votesJim, thank you for your feedback! Please note that there’s no notion of content controls in Excel. Content controls feature is only available in Word.
Also, the content control API is already available in Word Online. However, content controls are currently not editable in Word Online, and this is currently being worked on. We’ll keep you posted when this is available.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Add a "My Groups - Read/Write" Permission (that does not require Admin Consent)
It should not be necessary to require an admin consent to do Group read write operations through the graph API. There should be a permission for My Groups.
151 votesThe work has started, but there is no target date yet due to early investigations. This will work first on Microsoft Teams, then we will target Office 365 Groups. ^JT
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Allow updating any users Photo with User.ReadWrite.All scope
Currently even if you have the User.ReadWrite.All you cant update another users photo via:
PUT /beta/users/{User ID}/photo/$value
This would be VERY helpful.
41 votesThis work has been started. There is no target In Preview date yet as the investigation is still ongoing on what complete work is required. ^JT
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Word Add-In (Office 365) allways available.
I want to have my Word Add-in automatically loaded the next time I start Word. Now, I have to add the Add-in every time I start Word.
20 votesGerben, thank you for your feedback! We’re glad to report that we have started work on this. We’ll let you know when this is available,
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
allow add-in to use user's authorizations
An add-in that has been installed, and approved should not have to initiate another oauth flow to have access to documents on a sharepoint site, onedrive site, onedrive for business site,etc.
The API should make this readily available when the user is logged in, and has already granted permissions to the add-in itself.10 votesHi Edwin, and thank you for the feedback. We’ve started working on this suggestion and will provide more information at a later date.
Thanks,
Office Extensibility Team -
Writable NamedItemCollection
The ability to update, delete and insert into the Named Item Collection items for excel named ranges.
37 votesDave, thanks for your feedback! This is a very popular feature. We’ve started working on this and we’ll soon publish the design under the open-spec branch of the repository: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js-docs. Please stay tuned.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Provide Exchange Room or Equipment information
Please provide us with the information regarding room and/or equipment mailboxes that are available in Exchange. Including the resource properties so you can execute queries to retrieve that information.
109 votesThanks for your feedback! We have implemented a beta feature in the REST API to get room and other information. For more information, see this blog post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/exchangedev/2017/06/30/announcing-new-rest-apis-in-beta-for-rooms-time-zones-and-languages/
Please try it out and give us feedback.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
5 votes
Vimal, thank you for your feedback! This behavior is by design and we will update our documentation to reflect this accurately.
We have started work to add another property that can return null. We’ll let you know when this is available,
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
13 votes
Thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. We are actively adding support for custom and built-in properties so you don’t have to manipulate XML. We’ll let you know when this is available!
Thanks,
Office Extensibility Team
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