Feature Requests and Feedback
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3 votes
Hi Arthur,
Thanks for your suggestion! This API is now a part of requirement set 1.6 You can fiind more information here: https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/outlook/1.6/index?product=outlook.
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Office Extensibility TEam -
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 -
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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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 -
Support Compose add-ins on Outlook for Mac
I'm re-opening this idea (https://officespdev.uservoice.com/forums/224641-feature-requests-and-feedback/suggestions/12947451-support-mac-compose-in-add-ins) that was posted in March and replied to in October of this year. Compose add-ins are NOT supported on the 2016 Outlook Mac client as far as I can tell (I'm running v15.29 (161115) with Office Insider Fast); Compose add-ins ARE available in Word, Excel, etc. but not Outlook. Please let us know when and if that will be remedied. Thanks!
15 votesHello and thank you for your suggestion! Compose add-ins on Outlook for Mac are now supported. Please take a look and give us feedback.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Content control support in Word Online
I've posted about this here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/officeonline-word_online/content-control-support-in-word-online/0f33ba70-9fe0-4990-9f09-db5ce7f3a8c7?tm=1460747722010The JavaScript API provides a lot of functionalities around Content Controls, so I don't really understand why these are not supported in Word Online.
Will we have this support eventually? Do we have any estimated date for that?
67 votesThiago, we’re happy to report that 1.1 and 1.2 requirement sets are available in Word Online. Please check out dev.office.com for more info. The ability to edit content controls is a work-in-progress and should be available soon.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Vertical pane add-in in Outlook online in read mode
Give developers possibility to create add-in for outlook online, that is displayed in vertical pane in read mode. I saw such add-ins for Evernote and Wunderlist but there is no information in documentation how to create such add-ins. See screenshot: http://www.screencast.com/t/y6V5KTt1
6 votesHi Yulii,
Thank you for your feedback! You can now display add-ins in a vertical pane in read mode. You can see more info in our documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/add-ins/add-in-commands-for-outlook Please look and let us know if you have any feedback.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Ability to close the outlook add-in Pane
When developing an outlook add-in, it would be nice if it were possible to close the add-in pane with javascript after a certain action has been completed or after the user has done something.
7 votesHi Ryan
Thanks for your feedback! This ability has been added in API requirement set 1.5. For more information see https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/shared/officeui.closecontainer?product=outlook. Please let us know what you think.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Get online editor url in Word Online add in
I would be nice to have a way to get online editor url for a document in order to be able to share to others this url through the word add in
18 votesDorin, thanks for your feedback! We’re happy to report that this has always been possible with the API. Please check out https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/shared/document.getfilepropertiesasync?product=word for more info. The Url property contains the URL of the current document. If this API doesn’t help, please do not hesitate to ping us again!
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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 -
i suggest you give a raise to the author of "Write a ASP.NET MVC Web app to get Outlook mail."
This article is, hands down, the best one I've read in over twenty five years. It helped me solve two huge problems at once.
There is one minor editorial request: make the web.config element names match the names in the prose.
Bravo Zulu, msft.
1 voteI’m glad you liked it. Sorry for not responding sooner. I’ll buy Jason, the author, a beer when he’s on campus next time ;-) ^JT
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Javascript API For Excel Enhancements (copy worksheet/copy Range,merge cells,call a VBA function)
I think the Office Add-In technology is a great start, but is just too limiting to replace an older VBA application. Maybe a start would be to allow the JS API to call a VBA function so we could retain some macros especially for copying worksheets and formatting which is cumbersome in the new technology. Secondly it would help alot if we could define a worksheet and hide it and then copy and populate that spreadsheet, but their is no worksheet.copy method. Likewise if we can't do that it would at least be nice to copy a Range retaining all…
25 votesHi there,
We’re happy to say that part of your request is now possible with new Excel JavaScript APIs. Please see http://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/excel/range merge() method 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.
Thank you,
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 -
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 -
auto run plug-in (user/app defined)
Allow user to install plug-in with the option to auto-run the app (or plug-in as the option to turn on auto-run) so the user doesn't have to active the plug-in each time.
6 votesHello and thank you for your suggestion! We’re excited to announce that we have support for auto-opening add-ins. Please check it out at https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Add-in-Commands-Samples/tree/master/AutoOpenTaskpane and give us feedback.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Ability to add new workbooks in Excel Javascript API
Maybe implement it similarly the VBA object model where you have a collection of workbooks.
1 voteHi there,
We’re happy to say that this is now possible with new Excel JavaScript APIs. Please see Excel createWorkbook method https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api//excel?view=office-js#excel-createworkbook for more information.Thank you,
Office Extensibility Team -
MailboxNotEnabledForRESTAPI
There are claims on the https://dev.outlook.com/ site that we can now access all outlook api using REST, but this is not the case. What I am trying to establish is whether this is the case and I have the wrong configuration, or according to the response - MailboxNotEnabledForRESTAPI, the claims are not valid.
Please could someone give me the correct information. If it is the case that not all mailboxes are enabled for REST API then what methods or endpoints should I use to access the calendar information?
32 votesHi,
Thanks for your question. Upgraded outlook.com accounts will have REST APIs enabled. All existing outlook.com accounts are being upgraded in batches and your account will be upgraded automatically as part of it. If you would like to try the REST APIs before that, you can create a new account here: https://signup.live.com/ – this should have REST APIs enabled.
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Provide a common Parent object in the JavaScript API to current objects
Currently in the JavaScript API (speaking of Excel specifically, but this should be Office-wide). This is somewhat in the API right now, but it is not fully worked out, and most importantly it's non-uniform in its application in the current objects available.
Grabbing a table object, it has a getRange() property. This allows us to get the range of the table, that's great. The range object then has a worksheet property. Where this varies from the much more robust VBA is that a ListObject (aka table) has a Parent of the worksheet, not a range. A range has a Parent…
66 votesHi there,
We’re happy to say that this is now possible with new Excel JavaScript APIs requirement set 1,2. 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.
Thank you,
Office Extensibility Team -
REST API is not yet supported for this mailbox - tell me what's happening please?
After requesting that the REST API for my outlook.com account be authorised, I have heard nothing back. Some response would be good as my client may not go with Office 365 unless I can perform proof of concept demonstrations.
1 voteHi Dan,
Thanks for your question. Upgraded outlook.com accounts will have REST APIs enabled. All existing outlook.com accounts are being upgraded in batches and your account will be upgraded automatically as part of it. If you would like to try the REST APIs before that, you can create a new account here: https://signup.live.com/ – this should have REST APIs enabled.
Thanks!
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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
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