Feature Requests and Feedback
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Autorun outlook add-ins
We would like to create an add-in for Outlook that executes automatically for all new messages without requiring the user to manually activate it.
147 votesThanks for your feedback! We’ve just announced pinnable task pane feature at Ignite. Users will be able to pin task panes to remain open as they navigate through messages. Please check it out and give us feedback.
If you’ve other ideas, please open new suggestions on UserVoice.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Outlook.com
Provide REST API support for outlook.com
3 votesHi,
We are happy to say that this is now possible for all upgraded Outlook.com accounts. All existing outlook.com accounts are being upgraded in batches and your account will be upgraded automatically as part of it.
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Email address not working on: https://github.com/OfficeDev?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=add-in&type=&language=
I have tried to send an email to the address: officedev@microsoft.com and it got returned. It might be possible that only certain people can do this, if so, maybe you should hide it from the site? Thanks
1 voteThank you for reporting this issue. We had some issues with the email box and those should be now be resolved.
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Add an event that can be subscribed to when a user makes a change to a cell.
This might look not so important in many use cases. However, when the add-in takes in data from the worksheets and saves them through API calls, it becomes quite useful for a good user experience. Currently, users would need to click on a button in the add-in that would save all of the rows in one go. However, It would be nice if they don't require to do that and the changes can be saved real-time.
1 voteAhamed, thanks for your feedback! You can use the addFromNamedItem API to add data changed event and listen in on data changes. Refer to https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/excel/bindingcollection for more information.
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Office Extensibility Team -
onboardoam@microsoft.com doesn't accept email from non-@microsoft.com
https://dev.outlook.com/Actions/getting-started directs readers to onboardoam@microsoft.com which is configured not to accept email from external senders
1 voteThank you so much for reporting this issue! We truly appreciate it! We’ve now fixed this issue and you should be able to send email to this address. If you’ve any further feedback or questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Programmatic access to ribbon commands
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt621545
The new support for adding ribbon commands for Excel task pane add-ins is a good start. However, it will be even better if we can have programmatic access to these buttons. At the very least, the add-in should be able to update visibility and label. Ideally, the add-in could create buttons on the fly and control most properties. Thanks.1 voteHi there,
We’re happy to say that this is now possible with new add-in commands. Please see more at http://dev.office.com/blogs/Introducing-Office-2016-Add-in-commands-Preview-for-Word-and-Excel.Thank you,
Office Extensibility Team -
Give roadmap for Apps for Office support on Office for IPad
It would be great if you could give a roadmap as to when Apps for Office support will be introduced to Office for IPad, as well as the upcoming touch friendly Office for Windows that was shown at Build 2014. The popularity of any new app built for the App for Office platform would increase with our customers if the App was usable on these platforms. It would help us explain to our customers why we spent are time building a new App instead of extending our existing traditional Excel Add-in further. Any guidance would be appreciated, even if it…
4 votesThank you for your suggestion.
Currently we have Add-ins running on iPad in Excel and Word. We are continuing our effort to make sure Office Add-ins run wherever Office runs. Stay tuned and check out dev.office.com for all upcoming changes and releases.
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Office Developer Team -
Office 365 API for Global Address List
Please add an API to allow for manipulating the Global Address List.
See this link for background: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23727859/office-365-api-for-global-address-list
22 votesthis should be available now via Azure AD Graph APIs https://msdn.microsoft.com/Library/Azure/Ad/Graph/api/api-catalog
SharePoint-related requests are moved to https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329220-sharepoint-dev-platform. Thanks for your feedback and engagement! We will keep monitoring the feedback in the SharePoint UserVoice forum.
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Make a php sdk / library for Microsoft Graph
I know it says "Coming Soon" on the Graph website, but this would be hugely helpful to me. At least maybe give us a release date or progress report? Or if someone could direct me to where I can find this info, it'd be great. Looking forward to it!
3 votesHello, thank you so much for your suggestion! We’re excited to announce we now have a PHP SDK for Microsoft Graph! Please check it out at https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-php and give us feedback.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Support Mac Compose in Add-Ins
Currently (03/2016) Mac Outlook 2016 does not support Compose Add-Ins.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/dn818897.aspx
Please support Mac - and give us some idea of when this support will be available.33 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re happy to report that with add-in command support on Mac, compose is also supported. Please give it a try and give us feedback.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Task Pane for Word - Provide a provision to load document content in binary format from server
Extend office.js api to allow task pange apps to load document content in binary format from server. At present, it allows either Text or OOXML coercion types only.
1 voteNiranjan, thank you for your feedback! We’re happy to report that this is possible using the insertDocumentFrombase64 API. Please give it a try and let us know if you need anything else!
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Office Extensibility Team -
Pesentation on most classic use case for an Excel add-in
Since Office 2000 I have writen may COM Add-ins for Excel they all have a similar use case. That is they all write text files out of Excel result e.a. CNC files and AutoCAD scripts (see www.scriptsheets.com)
Please could you consider teaching me and others how to create an Office 365 App that is linked to an Excel workbook. And that can write text files to sub-folders in one-drive (or perhapse my local harddrive).
This would enable me to renew my existing Add-ins.
At the moment I should not know where to begin and I only run into cool…1 voteThank you for your feedback! We’ve several code samples in the OfficeDev repo on GitHub that are broader, scenario-type samples that can help understand the use case for Excel add-ins. Please check out the samples and let us know if they help.
- Excel Mail Merge Add-in - WoodGrove Bank Expense Trends Excel Add-in - College Budget Tracker Excel Add-in- College Credits Tracker Excel Add-in
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Office Extensibility Team -
Code samples are too narrow
Code samples are not real-world enough, and we also need a 30,000-foot view
6 votesThank you for your feedback! We’ve several code samples in the OfficeDev repo on GitHub that are broader, scenario-type samples. Please check out the samples and let us know if they help.
- Markdown Editor for Word Add-in
- Excel Mail Merge Add-in
- WoodGrove Bank Expense Trends Excel Add-in
- College Budget Tracker Excel Add-in
- Meeting Feedback for Android (https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-Android-MeetingFeedback)
- EmailPeek for iOS (https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-iOS-EmailPeek)
- ArtCurator for AngularJS, iOS, Android and WinPhone (https://github.com/OfficeDev/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=artcurator)Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Pay more attention to the accuracy of your "getting started" web pages
I started here:http://dev.office.com/getting-started/addins . I downloaded and installed VS 2015 Community edition. I got to here "3.In the New Project dialog, choose Templates > Visual C# > Office/SharePoint > Apps." But there is no such option. The "getting started" web page has no feedback option, which is why I am posting here. I have since discovered that what I need is to get and run the Web Platform Installer at http://aka.ms/officedevtoolsforvs2015 . That does appear to install the necessary stuff. There are enough barriers for people trying to get started - IMO the easier you can make the process,…
1 voteThank you so much for reporting this to us! We really appreciate it! We’ve reviewed these pages and fixed any inaccuracies.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Allow the Excel Javascript API to overwrite cells containing data when writing a "matrix"
The Office Javascript API is buggy when writing "matrix" information via the Office.context.document.setSelectedDataAsync() method. There are two scenarios that don't make any sense:
1) If an area is selected and the data written with setSelectedDataAsync() does not exactly match that area, the function will fail. Who cares if the data doesn't exactly match the area? Treat it as a paste operation, which doesn't care if it is overwriting data in existing cells nor what the selected area is for the paste operation - or pop up a dialog and ask the user if they want to replace the data.
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76 votesHi there,
We’re happy to say that this is now possible with new Excel JavaScript APIs. Please see http://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/excel/table for more information.To find even more about all these new APIs, please check out our API documentation on http://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/excel/excel-add-ins-javascript-programming-overview or https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js-docs/tree/master/excel.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Provide a typescript definition file for all office javascript.
Provide typescript definitions for outlook, excel, word and powerpoint.
There are some available from 3rd parties but these are unsupported and well out of date.
8 votesHi there,
We’re happy to say that this is now possible with new Excel JavaScript APIs. Please see https://github.com/OfficeDev/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/office-js for more information.Thank you,
Office Extensibility Team -
Add control to the embedded Excel charts API
I know that I can use external Javascript API's to draw charts on my app, but I would prefer use the original Excel charts.
Also, it would be great if it was possible to add new html content to the spreadsheet in which I could draw my chart.
Thanks for your time !
10 votesMartin, thank you for your feedback! Excel API introduced with Office 2016 offers wide range of Chart actions. Please give them a try and let us know what you think.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Excel Apps - Ability to enable/disable rows and columns programatically
Enabling/Disabling rows and columns is a key feature requirement for using Office Apps for OLTP systems.
The main idea is to fill the gap between VSTO features and Office Apps. This will help in easy portability of VSTO based apps to Office apps.15 votesHari, thanks for your suggestion! We’re happy to report that OfficeJs supports this feature. You can use range.rowHidden and range.columnHidden to hide and unhide the columns.
Please feel free to contact us if you’ve any more feedback.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Excel App - Ability to manage sheets in a workbook
Ability to manage sheets in a workbook, is a key feature requirement for using Office Apps for OLTP systems.
The main idea is to fill the gap between VSTO features and Office Apps. This will help in easy portability of VSTO based apps to Office apps.15 votesHari, thanks for your feedback! Basic CRUD operations for worksheets already available. Please check out dev.office.com and let us know what you think.
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Office Extensibility Team -
3 votes
Thanks for your feedback! We’re happy to report this API is available in requirement sets 1.1 and 1.2. Please check out dev.office.com for more info.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team
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