The default width of the task pane in Office add-ins is quite small, making styling difficult when you want to display more content in it. At a 1366x768 resolution, for Excel desktop the width of the task pane is 320 pixels. It would be nice if we could customize the default width of the task pane from the manifest or via the Office JS API. ... View more

We'd like to see better note-taking and annotation tools across all apps on the iOS platform, but also better integration with Windows, Android, and macOS. Many enterprise customers use various tools like Adobe Acrobat, PDFExpert, GoodNotes, Notability, etc. for their workflows. Usually, these tools are used as annotation tools due to their very basic functionality in OneDrive, SharePoint and Office products. For simplicity, we will "only" deal with the iOS platform in the following. When using annotation tools in an enterprise context, companies usually need a way to prevent data loss. Unfortunately, very few vendors offer AppConfigs or Intune SDK-enabled apps. Therefore, it would be even better if Microsoft already offered appropriate options in the apps for the platform. Best case, a consistent experience, regardless of platform. For the user it would then be a seamless process and for ITSec no further action would be needed on the app side once M365 has been approved (and for iOS/Android MAM/APP has been enabled). Let's take a look at a typical, everyday process: - Documents that need to be signed, approved, or commented on are converted to PDFs or already exist as PDFs - They are uploaded to OneDrive, giving the employee or approving colleague/supervisor access to the documents - Annotations are made using iPads (with 2nd generation iPads Pro and Apple Pencils). - Everything is stored on OneDrive - In the past, an app was set up for this, but the annotation features were pretty frustrating there too, and it was an enterprise app, so it was always pretty much work to keep it running (and make it cool and secure) Well, to improve the situation, here's what we've found out so far and suggest: - Some time ago there was a Microsoft blog post, for better integration of Apple Files and Microsoft OneDrive / SharePoint. Apple said they haven't changed anything, but Microsoft said they are working on a new implementation for iOS 15 that affects Apple Files and OneDrive. iOS 16 came out - and it's still the case that the OneDrive content is visible, but not writable and sometimes the Files app says "read only mode" at the bottom (but rather rarely) - Inside files we can't open, read or interact with files from OneDrive, but we still see all content - Inside OneDrive, a PDF is always opened with the PDF viewer inside OneDrive, same with the Office app - resulting in an eraser, three silly pens (not worth calling pens) and a highlighter - In Office, if you open another app for Office content like Excel, Word, or PowerPoint, there's already the drawing tool, which offers some cool and usable pens - In PDFExpert or similar apps, the tools are "ok", but there is also a dynamic feature that gives a more natural writing feel (still not cool, but nicer) - In the Apple Files app, Notes app, or whatever, Apple's note pens come into play (available as Apple PencilKit as an SDK)-the coolest, the best, and the ones that no one ever has to learn how to use because they just work naturally, like we learned to do as kids  Having established the necessary context, let's conclude with three questions: - How can we solve the problem with Apple Files and View and Annotate? - How can we ensure that pens from the Office suite get into the OneDrive PDF view for a better annotation experience? - What can we do to consolidate pen capabilities across Apple and Microsoft? Again, at best, a consistent experience regardless of platform.  ... View more

Ask: Make Backstage-New and the Office Welcome screen extensible so that add-ins like the officeatwork Template Chooser can serve custom organizational templates to users. Currently, a new empty document is created before an extensibility surface can be presented to the users. This for instance leads to many unwanted ‘empty’ documents stored in OneDrive for Office online. Additionally, think about allowing M365 admins to switch off any other template provider to avoid presenting non-brand compliant templates to Office users. ... View more

As it seems, currently Outlook Web Add-ins do not support context menus (e.g. the menu which appears when the user right clicks on an appointment). However, native Add-ins seem to support this (There is a "Send to Onenote" button which appears on Outlook). This functionality is very useful, especially since Web Add-ins also do not support tasks panes to stay always open. This causes that the user needs to reopen the task pane again and again every time he opens an appointment. Our use case would be: right click "Take Notes" which opens a Task Pane where the user can take meeting notes. Looking forward to get the OfficeDev's feedback on this! Thank you Lukas ... View more

I would like to send some data to a server, said data fetched from the Outlook event, and I would like to have the latest updated data on the server.   In  Office.AppointmentCompose  interface from Microsoft Office Addin JS API, there is no handler to detect when the user clicks the Save button or when presses  CTRL+S , in an Outlook Event.               I found   this, but this is only applicable to buttons inside the Add-in // In this example, consider a button defined in an add-in manifest as follows: //<Control xsi:type="Button" id="eventTestButton"> // <Label resid="eventButtonLabel" /> // <Tooltip resid="eventButtonTooltip" /> // <Supertip> // <Title resid="eventSuperTipTitle" /> // <Description resid="eventSuperTipDescription" /> // </Supertip> // <Icon> // <bt:Image size="16" resid="blue-icon-16" /> // <bt:Image size="32" resid="blue-icon-32" /> // <bt:Image size="80" resid="blue-icon-80" /> // </Icon> // <Action xsi:type="ExecuteFunction"> // <FunctionName>testEventObject</FunctionName> // </Action> //</Control> // The button has an id attribute set to eventTestButton, and will invoke // the testEventObject function defined in the add-in. // That function looks like this: function testEventObject ( event ) { // The event object implements the Event interface. // This value will be "eventTestButton". var buttonId = event. source . id ; // Signal to the host app that processing is complete. event. completed (); } I also found this   list   of events, but they don't include   save   event. ... View more

Sometimes custom function might have parameters which accept only a couple of predefined options/values. It would be nice to have a feature which allows the user to see those possible options (for selection, like in a drop-down list or similar) as soon as he starts typing in the custom function into a cell. ... View more

The Function Arguments dialog has a nice feature for built-in functions and that is to display the formula result. The user can type in the argument(s) and see in real time the result, before closing the dialog. It would be nice to have this same feature for custom functions as well. ... View more

As user I would like to add line breaks inside description of Supertip in intention that added description of what that button do be more clear to user. So something like this: As I read documentation and understood that Supertips should be defined in manifest.xml with properties of Title and Description, which are added through Resources specifically LongStrings and ShortStrings: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/manifest/supertip?view=common-js-preview#description     <Supertip> <Title resid="shortStringId" /> <Description resid="longStringId" /> </Supertip>     I am not able to add line break to them, I tried with multiple suggestions to create line break, but none of them work. Only way I manage to do it is to add lot of spaces and then force linebreak  in Supertip but on different versions of Word those spaces are not forcing line break, they are just shown as spaces    As a conclusion I would love to have this feature integrated inside office.js, is this something that is considered to be done?   Thank you! ... View more

There currently isn't a way for grouping multiple add-ins together, meaning you have to have separate tabs and groups for each add-in you create. This ends up with the over population of the ribbon and an awful end user experience if they're using multiple add-ins that could easily be grouped together in their own tab/group if it was possible.   If it was possible to have a unique group ID that we could place in the manifest files of each add-in that would check to see if that group already exists, placing it there if it does, or creating the group if not. It would allow for much nicer UX design and be highly beneficial. Whilst also not allowing for other add-ins to accidentally/maliciously take over the tab/group.   The XML CustomUI method that exists is a good example of this, allowing for shared groups of custom controls. If this could hook into the same system it would also allow for the co-existence of custom controls with the Agave controls which could also be beneficial if they're commonly used together (As illustrated below). ... View more

We are exploring the new Office JS add-ons model for Outlook for mobile apps and wanted to integrate our product with iOS/Android apps. While exploring the new Office JS model, we didn't see any way to integrate the product with compose window. Task-pane or commandBar way of integration is missing for compose window. Compose window task-pane or commandBar integration is common use case among iOS/Android users. While composing emails, the following use cases are common in industry: Users want to insert documents or attach emails from 3rd part repository or storage or from content management software. When user sends an email, they want to keep a copy of the email in the repository also Currently these use cases are not possible with add-in model. But it is supported in desktop version as well as web version of add-ins. Without these use cases support, users wont adapt our solutions. So this is required for more user adaptability.         ... View more

Periodically (often as developers, sometimes as users) Excel fails to load custom functions for various reasons and shows this error:   It would be really, really helpful if the UI error said what functions couldn't be loaded and why (perhaps via a "Details" button/link). As a developer, I know how to enable and then look in AppData\Local\Temp\1\OfficeAddins.log.txt (although it seems to me it only sometimes has any relevant information), but end users don't, and it's hardly convenient. ... View more

Requesting a feature for the office.js API to allow developers to create a keyboard shortcut to side-load an add-in in Outlook and Word.  For users that do not use a mouse the process to side-load an add-in is cumbersome, especially in the case where a user may be going back in forth between typing their email/document and accessing ui elements in the task pane itself.  Having the ability to create keyboard shortcuts to access the add-in will contribute to a more accessible experience overall.   ... View more

Currently, when an on-send add-in is running after clicking "Send" on a reply, an error will be displayed and the message will be saved as a draft if the user clicks away to another message if the add-in has not completed. Your Environment Platform [PC desktop, Mac, iOS, Office on the web]: PC Desktop Host [Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.]: Outlook Operating System: Windows 10 Expected behavior Complete the processing of the on-send add-in in the background even if the user clicks away from the message. Current behavior An error is shown: "An add-in prevented this message from being sent. It will be saved as a draft" and (if the reply is popped out): "Add-ins are still running on this message. The message won't be sent until the add-in completes. Do you want to wait for them to finish?" Steps to reproduce Create an outlook add-in with the "On-Send feature" as described   here Install the on-send add-in Reply to a message (don't pop out) Click send. Then immediately click away to another message. (Note: Same thing for a popped-out reply -- just a different error message is shown) Provide additional details A Stack Overflow question was asked here:   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61345763/how-to-prevent-on-send-add-in-errors-when-user-clicks-elsewhere Context When we have on-send processing that may take a few seconds to complete, we want the user to be able to continue using Outlook as they would (which may include navigating to another message). There should be some way to handle this appropriately so that the on-send can run in the background and if an error occurs, then the user could be notified appropriately.   See Github issue here: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues/2377 ... View more

Users should be able to input/choose individualised colours for their “categories”rather than being forced into the 30 pre-selected colour options. Just like with Excel/Word/PPT users should be able to choose the category colour using a colour wheel, the custom gradient, RGB model or Hex. Please!! ... View more

In my project, I'm currently loading ribbons in Excel add-in using Office.js Ribbon API Office.ribbon.requestCreateControls(Ribbon_JSON_HERE); I would like to know how to achieve customize a ribbon's size definition and scaling policies via Ribbon API. I found a doc that can do this in a manifest.xml way -   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/windowsribbon/windowsribbon-templates   . I need the ability to do this using Ribbon API. ... View more

I'd like to see the ability to register ribbon items (tabs and their children) dynamically on the client-side via my app or some tenant scoped javascript that I can register (needs to work with SharePoint Online and should not block submittal to the store). Right now the only way to register a ribbon item of any sort is to do so during the app installation which doesn’t allow us to extend the ribbon over time (either with our own service adding items or by allowing the user to add their own items via an app or whatever). ... View more

In MS Word Online we have a option to add comments and assign as Task to someone to address those comments. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-mention-in-comments-to-tag-someone-for-feedback-644bf...   The Tasks created from here are not visible in ToDo only an email gets triggered.   Making these comments available in ToDo will help to track all actions at a single place ... View more

I'd love to be able to have creation/modify date visible in the Onenote pages list. Best would be to be able to select whether or not the creation or last modified date is shown (in front of the page title on the left), and that you could also sort using either option.     PS. For those missing this feature: Opening the search results pane and selecting "sort by date modified" enables to list the pages almost like I suggested. This, however eats a lot of screen space and isn't very intuitive to use.      ... View more