Agenda for January included Office Add-ins overview​; call for input on single sign on (SSO)​; what's new in Outlook JavaScript API; ​Customer Demo (Excel add-in); what's new in Excel JavaScript API​

1. Office Add-ins
Community call
January 9, 2019
8:00 AM PST

2. • https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall
• Next call: Wednesday, February 13, 2019
• What’s new
• Meet the product teams behind Office Add-ins
• Technical deep dives
• Q&A
About the community call

3. Call agenda
• Office Add-ins overview
• Call for input: Single sign on (SSO)
• What's new: Outlook JavaScript API
• Customer Demo (Excel add-in)
• What's new: Excel JavaScript API
• Q&A

4. Presenters
Keyur Patel
Sr. Program Manager
Kim Brandl
Sr. Dev Writer
Doug Mahugh
Sr. Dev Writer
Sr. Program Manager
Juan Balmori Labra
Sohail Zafar
Principal Program Manager
Raymond Lu
Sr. Program Manager
Peter Tippett
Founder at NOW Functions

5. Office Add-ins
Overview
Doug Mahugh, Sr. Dev Writer

6. Add-inAdd-in Add-in
Add-in
Web App Manifest fileAdd-in

7. Add-in
Web APIs,
Azure services,
cloud storage,
analytics
Office.js

8. aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs

9. Single sign-on (SSO)
for Office Add-ins
• Nitesh Golchha is the new PM
• Looking to understand customer
needs around SSO
Provide your input!
1. Complete this form:
https://aka.ms/office-add-ins-sso
2. Reach out to Nitesh:
nigolc@microsoft.com

10. What’s new:
Outlook JavaScript API
Sohail Zafar, Principal Program Manager

11. Updates
• Shared folders/ delegate access in preview
• OnSend in internal dogfood. Current plan is LOB only
• Some of the Preview APIs
• InternetHeaders - Represents the internet headers of a message item.
• Getting attachment details (meta data) in compose
• Getting attachment content in both read and compose (both file and item attachments)
• In compose, exposing AttachmentsChanged event which includes New attachment /
attachment deleted events.

12. Custom functions in Excel
(preview)
Keyur Patel, Sr. Program Manager

13. Updates (Oct – December)
Based on your feedback...thank you!
• Any return types
• Optional parameters
• Get the calling address of your function call (invocationContext.address)
• 'id' parameter is now required
• Namespace is no longer required

14. CustomFunctionsMapping is being removed in
favor of CustomFunctions.associate
https://aka.ms/customfunctions (see changelog)
January update

15. • Volatile functions
• Tooling + debugging in VS Code
• Mac updates (i.e. AsyncStorage)
• Repeating, optional parameters
• Suppress your web add-in on Windows in favor
of your com/xll add-ins
• Performance and stabilization
Coming soon

16. - Weekly calls on Excel and Custom Functions.
- Email kepatel@Microsoft.com for the invite and
access to the Microsoft Teams team
- tip: use the RSS Feed on docs.microsoft.com:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/search/index?search=%22custom+function%22
&scope=Office%20Add-ins (click the RSS button)
Stay updated

17. Customer spotlight -
Custom functions in Excel
Peter Tippett
Founder @ NOW Functions

18. What’s new:
Excel JavaScript API:
a. 1.7 + 1.8 + Beta Recap.
b. Comments API
c. Slicer API
Juan Balmori Labra, Sr. Program Manager
Raymond Lu, Sr. Program Manager

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#APIS
API Release
Excel JS API release history
Accelerating towards full API parity beta: https://aka.ms/excelapiopenspec

20. PivotTable
Data Validation
Chart Events
Create Workbook
Gridlines
Sheet Headings
Calc Events
Remove Dupes
Chart Style
Chart ErrorBar
Chart FormatString
1.1
Nov ‘15
1.2
Jan ‘16
1.3
Sep ‘16
1.4
Jan ‘17
1.5
May ‘17
1.6
May ‘17
1.7
May ‘18
1.8
Sep ‘18
Beta!!
Shapes
New Charts
Autofilter
Areas
PageLayout
Copy Paste
RangeFormat 3
Save, Close
Filter Events
Events Old/new
Values
Insert Workbook
Special Cells
Styles
Protection
Freeze Pane
Custom & Built in
Props
Sheet Events
Sheet Copy
Hyperlinks
Table Events
Binding Events
Setting Events
Chart Types
Chart Axis
Chart DataLabel
Chart Legend
Chart Point
Chart Series
Trend Lines
Settings CustXmlParts
Application/
Calculate
Workbook
Worksheet
Table
Range
Columns
Rows
Conditional
Formatting
Calculate
Bindings
RangeView
Charts
Named Items
Sort
RangeFormat
Protection
Filter
Comments
Slicer

21. Comments API
• Feature: Comments vs Notes
• JavaScript Design
• Demo
• Sample Script

22. Comments
vs
Notes

23. Comment API JavaScript Design
Workbook • Property: Comments
Worksheet • Property: Comments
CommentCollection • Methods: add(), getCount(), getItem(), getItemAt(),
getItemByReplyID(), getItemByCell()
Comment
• Method: delete()
• Properties: content, replies, id, isParent
CommentReplyCollection • Methods: getItem(), getCount(), getItemAt(), add()
CommentReply
• Methods: getParentComment(), delete()
• Properties: content, id, isParent

24. Scenarios
Scenarios Status
Add Comment and Reply In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Update/Edit Comment and Reply In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Delete/Clear Comment and Reply In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Copy/Paste/Cut Comments Supported in Windows, Mac, and Online
@Mention TBD
Resolve Comments Feature in development
Next/Previous Comment TBD
Get Author by Comment TBD
Get Range by Comment TBD
Hide/Unhide Indicator TBD
Hide/Unhide Comments TBD

25. Comments:
• Add/Edit/Delete a Comment
• Add/Edit/Delete a Reply to
Comment

26. Sample Script
Insert a
Comment

27. Sample Script: Edit and Delete Comment

28. Sample Script: Add a Comment Reply

29. Sample Script: Edit and Delete a Comment Reply

30. Slicer API
• Feature: Slicer Introduction
• JavaScript API Design
• Demo
• Sample Script

31. Slicer for table and pivot table

32. Slicer API JavaScript Design
Slicers –
SlicerCollection
add() getCount()
getItem(slicername)
Slicer
name width
SlicerItems –
SlicerItemCollection
getCount() SlicerItem
isSelected
…
style delete() …
•Property: Slicers | SlicerCollection
•Method: getActiveSlicer()
Workbook
•Property: Slicers | SlicerCollection
Worksheet

33. Scenarios
Scenarios Status
Create a slicer In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Position and resize In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Make a selection In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Change slicer style In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Sort slicer (basic) In Beta (Builds 16.0.11308 +)
Sort by custom list TBD
Format the slicer (rowheight, showheader, etc) TBD
Enable timeline slicer TBD
Support OLAP data source TBD
Change slicer connection TBD

34. Slicer Feature Demo
• Add slicer
• Set Position
• Make Selection
• Delete

35. Sample Code
Create Slicer
Make a selection
Delete Slicer
Set position

36. Engage with us!
Are you interested in...
* Presenting during an upcoming call?
* Providing feedback about the docs?
aka.ms/office-add-ins-engage

37. Q&A (post questions in chat window)

38. Learn
Engage
Developer resources
What Where
Office 365 Developer Program https://aka.ms/officedevprogram
Script Lab https://aka.ms/getscriptlab
Office Add-ins documentation https://aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs
Excel JS API Open spec https://aka.ms/excel-js-open-spec
Custom Functions https://aka.ms/customfunctions
What Where
Stack Overflow (questions) https://stackoverflow.com
office-js
outlook-web-addins
GitHub (issues) https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js
UserVoice (feature requests) https://officespdev.uservoice.com
Send a Smile or Frown Inside Office

39. • Recording will be available soon on Office Developer YouTube
• https://aka.ms/OfficeDevYouTube
• Next call: Wednesday February 13th, 2019
• Submit your questions: https://aka.ms/officeaddinsform
• Add to your calendar: https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall
Thank you