I am making an Outlook taskpane add-in and want to show an Error Massage if my backend is not reachable. But I do not know how to open an Error box or the yellow error massage that Outlook uses is there a way?
or is there a better solution?
The yellow box is currently an internal feature, and we don't have JS APIs available to show that. You can request this as a new feature and we track Outlook add-in feature requests on our Tech Community Page. Please submit your request there and choose the appropriate label(s). Feature requests on Tech Community are considered, when we go through our planning process.
Otherwise, you could just create your own error message box in the taskpane to show the users.
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The user can select emails in Outlook online by placing checkmarks in front of them. Is there a way to get the list of selected emails by means of the Office.js API?
Alternatively: is it possible to extend the [move to] button with custom options?
Currently these 2 features you mentioned are not part of the Office JS API. We track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. Please add your requests there. Feature requests on user-voice are considered when we go through our planning process
I'm searching in documentation how to get the list of contact of the Office account in the way to display it and let the user pick all phone numbers he need.
I assume is not possible during outlook appointment compose. But i would to be sure (Maybe i miss an important point in doc)
Thanks !
Currently the feature to get all contacts, you requested, is not a part of the product. We track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. Please add your request there. Feature requests on user-voice are considered when we go through our planning process.
Meanwhile, you can achieve this by using REST API's.
I have old outlook add-in (COM/VSTO). And I have new one with office.js.
Is it possible to use old one from new one?
Basically I want to imitate left click action on old plugin from new plugin code.
Thank you
Office.js API doesn't have functionality to directly communicate to the COM/VSTO technology add-ins. You may share certain message data and/or user properties as described at How to share user roaming settings between Outlook COM/VSTO and Office JS Add-in, but nothing more.
If you have strong business case and this is something you would like to see in upcoming Office.js releases, you may post your suggestion at officespdev.uservoice.com
I used http://www.everythingaccess.com/tutorials.asp?ID=Outlook-Send-E-mail-Without-Security-Warning , to finish my first ms access vba app that sends multiple notifications via outlook, without security pop-up. Now I want to make a WEB BASED version of it. So, using asp.net & mysql instead of vba & access raises certain questions.
When I comes down to it, what would be the difference of using (will post link below) vs installing VSTO runtime to run the outlook module I allready used in my first link?
Would you consider the "add-in" a more robust, integrated, easy approach since it seems I'd otherwise need to put the module of my first link in each users outlook install or am I just completely mistaken or is it a combination of both, please explain...
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2nd link of first post , outlook addin
I have a COM Outlook addin programmed in C++ (VS2005). I'm trying to see if within this addin I can get a random user or resource and see if it is available during a certain meeting time. Basically I'm trying to do something like getuseravailability() from the 2007 Exchange Web Service api listed below.
getuseravailability
Is this the only way to get this information? I've been looking through CDO, ADSI, MAPI and the Outlook object model but can't find anything else like it. I'm avoiding using web services because the Exchange Servers I run against may not have it enabled/ may not be Exchange 2007. And also, I'm hoping for a COM api easily integrated with the existing Outlook COM addin, was really hoping for an OOM solution.
Am I wrong or would the webservices sdk require .net to be installed on the machine running the addin as well?
I believe I've found a way to do this with CDO. Will be trying a sample app for this to see if it does what I think it does.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms870482%28EXCHG.65%29.aspx
I didn't find this earlier because the MSDN library's default view doesn't easily let you browse through the table of contents for a section. You have to go into MSDNs preferences and choose "Classic View" to get the table of contents view on the left.