This functionality was the main reason we started using actionable items in emails. This allowed you to be able to switch back and fourth between the email behind the card and the card. Maybe it would be better to call it something like "See Accompanied Message".

Allow an option to have all calendar invites to be a Teams meeting by default instead of needing to manually set it as a Teams meeting each time.

Currently displayMessageForm method is opening the message pointed by itemId in a new window.

It will be great if we could pass an option to the method Office.context.mailbox.displayMessageForm() that allows to replace the current visualized message with the new message indicated in itemId.

The use case that I want to enable here is to programmatically navigate with add-in javascript to arbitrary messages knowing their itemIds.

Hi Team,

I am facing issue to extend existing Customtab in outlook with Office Add-ins (not with VSTO, its with manifest.xml)

Steps:
I have created a customtab called "My Add-Ins" in outlook, this was created with first add-in called "A" and its working fine.

Now I have another outlook add-in called "B", I wants to add "B" add-in to exist/already created customtab "My Add-ins".
How can I do that? Do I needs to use Office Tab or Custom Tab in manifest.xml ?

Can you please help me here, thanks in advance 👍

it would be nice to have an add in to create planner tasks from emails (similar to tasks in outlook) or link planner tasks to emails. Maybe even add the option to perform automated actions when the task is finished (e.g. move email to archive)

The requirement for me is using webRTC in office add-in, so we need to access to microphone, however there is no way to grant the access to microphone in desktop app(it works well on web side). so we want add-in can support this feature.

According to the specification https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4021#page-32 we should use a header in this case, but apparently Internet Headers do not allow to change this specific header.

Outlook for Mac supports this - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/announcing-add-in-support-for-gmail-accounts-in-mac-outlook - but Outlook for Windows Desktop does not

The current implementation of the Office.EmailAddressDetails interface contains the displayName property.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/outlook/office.emailaddressdetails?view=outlook-js-preview

It is hard to determine the first and last names from the displayName string. Is it possible to add the FirstName and LastName properties at least for Exchange Online/Outlook 365 users?

In desktop Outlook app you can set dark/light theme or follow system theme and you can read that value from Office.context.officeTheme so add-in color scheme would match the app.
You can set dark theme in Outlook web app but the issue is that Office.context.officeTheme returns undefined.

Sometimes E-Mails are not stored within outlook, but a user want to answer to such E-Mail and also set the ConversationId so it can be later displayed as Conversation. Actually the ConversationId is a read-Only Field.

Unlike other office applications (as far as I've read) and web clients, Outlook desktop applications (Win/OSX) block the download of files from the addin task pane.

What we'd exactly like to do is generate a file on the front end and trigger a download much like this OfficeDev example https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Add-in-JavaScript-FileDownload/blob/d1fa2095149b8f31314b1912d7c50556e519addd/FileDownloadSampleWeb/Home.js#L89.

Unfortunately, we have some limitations which mean we can't work around this by opening a specific URL to download the file in a browser.

I stopped using FindTime since non-tech recipients can not figure out how to respond. The idea is good the application needs to be simple for non-techs to understand and use.

I can get "my" contacts with

Office.context.mailbox.getCallbackTokenAsync({isRest:true}, res => fetch('https://outlook.office.com/api/v2.0/me/contacts', {… res.value })

but that doesn't include organization contacts.

There seems to be a Graph endpoint that might list org contacts (https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people), but the token from getCallbackTokenAsync doesn't work on Graph.

It'd be nice if we could get org contacts as easily as we get personal ones in addins.

I'd like to have more granular permissions. There is currently no way to get all contact phone numbers without requesting full ReadWriteMailbox Permissions (needed in order to make the call through getCallbackTokenAsync)

Adding Office.EventType.ItemChanging event will greatly help add-in developers to write robust code to handle changing mail items.

With a ItemChanging event that fires before Office.context.mailbox.item changes to the new context, we can write cleaner transition state logic, avoiding operations meant for previous item from bleeding into the next item.

Have an option by sending a request to close the Outlook add-in task pane.

I believe that you should support smime encryption and not only signing in office js apps. This is an important feature since many companies depend on S/Mimein their product. Currently, as per your documentation, the add-in is not activated in case of encrypted emails.

Regards