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, group boxes don't support Outlook add-ins. It would be really useful if they would support it.

I was following this guide to create a group box and reproduce this behavior
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-group-in-outlook-04d0c9cf-6864-423c-a380-4fa858f27102?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us#ID0EACAAA=Web

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.

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)

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.

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 👍

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There should be option to disable or hide Addin icon and title in taskpane/sidepane header?

Or there should be an option to customize header of sidepane/taskpane like setting background image or custom font in header?

I really love the web look of outlook. It is super easy to navigate, I can find all the various functions that I have been struggling to find in the updated desktop app. I would love if they could duplicate the look.

Currently e-mail distribution is accepting Duplicate e-mail ID's.

My Suggestion:
If Duplicate ID's are in the distribution. Mail should recognize it, and inform user to remove and indicate the duplicate id's in Red Colour, for easy detection and removal.

I would love to be able to create tasks from my Outlook web add in using Office.js based on information retrieved from our servers.
Being able to launch a form for the users, something like Office.context.mailbox.displayNewTaskForm, like how you can use displayNewMessageForm, or displayNewAppointmentForm would be useful.

Recently, we were giving a functioning of search-related to a web module on Outlook through Add-On which was not specific to any mail. While adding its button, we found that there is no way to place the button in the command bar.

Kindly plan it, so that any open module which are not specific to any mail, can also be intergrated.

Add api to invoke the text-changed event on the message body in item edit mode

In add-in we want our cursor/caret to appear in the To: field right after loading the add-in. But it goes away and never appear until we click either inside the message body or any other text field.

I suggest that we should provide a method to place cursor/caret whereever user wants it to be placed.

It works just fine in web version.

Here is the reference of discussion with MSFT Outlook Addin team,
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58973742/outlook-365-addin-on-desktop?noredirect=1#comment104757525_58973742