Feature Requests and Feedback
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Make the E5 Developer Subscription Available To Existing Developers
Microsoft have decided to make the E5 Developer Subscription available to only new developer subscriptions. Can this be made available to existing developers?
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Explains exactly what is an "active developer activity" before deletion
The new subscription model is now for 90 days with auto renewal as long as there are "active developer activities" but it's written nowhere what exactly is an "active developer activity".
Please then explains in detail.
For example, create a sharepoint site? Add a webpart to a page? Deploy a spfx solution in the app catalaog?
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Add EM+S to Office 365 Development Subscription
On my Office 365 Dev Subscription, I am trying to do a PoC for Azure AD joining Windows 10 machines. But that requires an intune subscription. I think you will get more development work out of EM+S products, if you include it with the dev subscription.
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Special Cells method
In Excel API, I can't choose cells based if they have formulas or values.
In VBA, I can do that by using Range.SpecialCells method. Also, I can specify if I want to get only text values, numbers, errors and/or booleans.
Please, support this for Excel JavaScript API, because currently, I'm looping all the worksheet's used range rectangle to get the values, and my loops spend a lot of time skipping blank cells.
39 votesThis API is available, it was released in requirement set 1.9
You can refer to document:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/excel-add-ins-ranges-advanced#find-special-cells-within-a-range
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Add array formula support to the Excel Office Add-In API
We would like to have array formula support available in the office.js API. We use these heavily in our VSTO Excel Add-in in combination with user defined functions to display function output in multiple cells. Having this feature available would allow us to build the Excel Office Add-in we would like to build.
For other forum browsers, here is an example of an array formula.
https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2015/02/25/array-formulas-functions-excel/#array-formula-introPlease note that while Binding.setDataAsync() in the office.js API supports adding formulas to a range of cells, you cannot see or edit the formula after adding.
93 votesThis is available now, Dynamic array support was released to Office 365 subscribers in the monthly channel in January 2020.
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Benefits for Office 365 Developer Program
There is no way to access office 365 developer program benefits. The link sent in the activation email points to the page that does not exist. There is no page with links to particular benefits as well.
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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.
Thanks!
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.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Ability to manipulate Excel comments
Please add the ability to create, delete, and modify Excel Comments on specific cells using Office.js
153 votesThe Comments API is GA, please have a try, and let us know your feedback, the document can be found at
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/excel/excel.comment?view=excel-js-previewThanks!
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.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Writable NamedItemCollection
The ability to update, delete and insert into the Named Item Collection items for excel named ranges.
40 votesThis API has been released in requirement set 1.4.
the document can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/excel/excel.nameditemcollection?view=excel-js-preview#add-name--reference--comment-Please have a try. Any feedback is welcome
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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!
Thanks!
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.
Thanks!
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 -
Make getFileAsync available to Powerpoint Online.
Currently getFileAsync function works in Powerpoint desktop and Powerpoint iPad, so it is natural to extend it to Powerpoint online. Actually, in reference page https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj715284.aspx (section "support details"), it is mistakenly stated that it works in Powerpoint Online.
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Ability to customize Excel ribbon
Please provide the ability to customize the Excel ribbon from Office.js (in a task pane add-in).
Add a new tab that appears when workbook is active
Add new ribbon buttons to custom tab
Hook button click event to execute app logic
Set label, tooltip, icon, etc.3 votesHi there,
We’re happy to say that this is now possible with new add-in commands now available for developer preview. See more at http://dev.office.com/blogs/Introducing-Office-2016-Add-in-commands-Preview-for-Word-and-Excel.Thank you,
Office Extensibility Team -
Allow Office Add-in in Excel to make cells read-only for end-user
Enhance the Office add-in javascript APIs (for Excel) to allow the add-in to programmatically make cells in the worksheet read-only.
Our use case requires that our add-in be able to populate a table in the worksheet with values, but some of the values should be read-only for the end-user. (In our COM/VSTO add-in we toggled worksheet protection off/on to accomplish this).
See this forum post for the origin of this suggestion:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/2aef0535-8a26-4618-8d13-0144f852b7d1/is-it-possible-for-an-excel-task-pane-addin-to-make-cells-readonly-to-the-enduser-but-writable?forum=appsforoffice1 voteHi 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/worksheetprotection 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 -
Offer Office 365 as part of MSDN subscriptions
I suggest you offer Office 365 as part of MSDN subscriptions.
I was extremely disappointed to see that when I login to my MSDN subscription and search for "Office", I don't see Office 365 listed as an available download.
I pay for my MSDN subscription out of my own pocket, so the absence of Office 365 from MSDN subscriber downloads is a large impediment.
8 votesIn 2019 we now support both Visual Studio Pro and Enterprise subscribers and have a federated sign up process you can access through your subscription. Check out this blog post
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/new-office-365-developer-program-benefits-for-visual-studio-subscribers/ -
Provide at least two licenses in O365 Developer Pack
You can't test user permissions and other things with a single admin user. Running as admin isn't really best practice when developing. Agreed?
20 votesThis was delivered in March of 2018 with the new E3 tenant. we now offer up to 25 users for development purposes including the admin
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Please fix https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/support
Some key links on this page are broken, which makes it hard for developers to get help.
(1) dxipfb@microsoft.com bounce email back, because it only accept emails from within Microsoft.
(2) "Give feedback about this page" link at the bottom of the page links to no where. So it can't be used to provide you feedback at all.6 votes
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