Developing Office Add-Ins
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Presentation given at BIWUG. We dive into the world of Office Add-in development. I'll give an overview of the possibilities of Office Add-ins, cover what is new in Office 2016 and discuss the recent enhancements that have been made to the Office.js APIs. I’ll share some experiences from real-life implementations… or how theory and practice do not always match.
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Developing Office Add-Ins
- 2. Special thanks to our sponsors
- 3. About me Peter Plessers - peter.plessers@spikes.be SharePoint Architect at Spikes http://www.spikes.be Co-founder of Tasks in a Box http://tasksinabox.com
- 4. Agenda What are my options? Office Add-Ins Task Add-Ins Content Add-Ins Command Add-Ins Mail Add-Ins Office UI Fabric Lessons learned the hard way
- 5. Visual Basic for Applications Visual Studio Tools for Office Office Add-Ins
- 9. Office Add-Ins VSTO VBA Automations & Interaction with host computer a a User Interface Customizations Partial a Partial Interaction with Office APIs Partial a a Offline Availability (HTML 5 capabilities) a a Support for team development + source control a a Run code at application-level a a Sandboxed environment a Compatibility Office 2013+ (Windows & Mac*) Office Online Mobile Office 2007+ (Windows) Office 2000+ (Windows & Mac*) Applications Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint Project Office Mix Access Web Apps Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint Project Visio InfoPath Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint Access
- 11. Types of Office Add-ins
- 12. Where available?
- 13. Manifest + webpage = an app for Office
- 15. Task Pane App User Experience Familiar User Experience Leverages familiar Office UI paradigm Reference Information Ideal for providing reference information associated with document.
- 19. Everything you need to easily create and share interactive online videos
- 24. Appear in messages and appointments Read & Compose Mode Contextual to current item Distributed by Exchange
- 26. Extracted Entities Entity Type Text Detected Address US postal addresses 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052 EmailAddress Any SMTP address MeetingSuggestion A reference to an event or meeting Let’s meet next Tuesday for lunch. Contact A personal name related to other entities Randy Byrne, 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052 PhoneNumber US telephone numbers (555) 867-5309 TaskSuggestion Actionable sentences in an email Please install office 2013 on my computer. Url A filename or web address
- 28. Get subject of selected mail Office.context.mailbox.item.subject Get attachments of selected mail Office.context.mailbox.item.attachments Accessing Mail Properties
- 29. In Add-In: 1. Get a callback token from Exchange server 2. Call custom web service passing callback token + email id In custom web service: 1. Authenticate to Exchange server with callback token 2. Call EWS to get attachments for email 3. Return result Get Attachments
- 31. • Get the same look & feel of native Office applications • Collection of CSS, HTML and JavaScript • Features • Typography • Color Schemes • Icons • Animations • Responsive Grid Office UI Fabric
- 32. Components
- 34. • Test in multiple browsers / desktop applications • Security zones in IE • Differences in capabilities • E.g., Outlook for Mac does not support APIs for compose mode • EWS Callback Token Bug !!! Lessons Learned
- 36. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- Template may not be modified Twitter hashtag: #spsbe for all sessions
- Currently Apps for Office are available in the following shapes Content App – These are embedded into the main content similar to a chart or image would be. Task Pane App – These appear in the sidebars Mail App – Dedicated experience for email inboxes
- The basic components of an app for Office are an XML manifest file and a webpage. The manifest defines various settings and points to the webpage that implements the app UI and custom logic
- One reason to create a task pane app is that it provides Office users with a familiar user experience. For example Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel have exposed many of its internal features using task panes so task pane apps provides a familiar Office UI paradigm. Task pane apps are ideal for providing users with reference information. For example, a task pane app can perform Internet searches or lockups and provide reference information that can be inserted back into the current document. This slide contains a screenshot showing the app after it has been inserted in a document. In Microsoft Word 2013. Different apps provide different user experiences. This app which is available for free on the Office Store allows the user to leverage the Marriam-Webster online dictionary lookup service to look up words and terms right from within Microsoft Word.
- Word CustomXmlParts
- https://mix.office.com/watch/1tkuqw9i7m4jr