We have a Outlook add-in using add-in commands. We have a task pane with user info that includes a simple hyperlink with target set to "_blank". When the user clicks on this link a web page pops up. If the user subsequently closes Outlook, everything closes down fine on PC Desktop Outlook and OWA.
On Outlook for Mac however there is a problem. In that case when you close Outlook everything goes away, but our task pane stays on the screen like it is stuck. If you click on this task pane Outlook reappears but the inbox is blank, and only the task pane and the current email is showing. You must manually close the task pane and then Outlook for everything to close properly.
A few observations:
This only occurs for the main mail read command surface. If you pop open an email and open the task pane from the email's Ribbon, and click the link from there, the email closes fine.
If you open the task pane from the main mail read command surface but you do not click on the link on the task pane, then Outlook closes without issue.
It is like the task pane is holding on to a reference to the child window pop up, so Outlook for Mac cannot properly close the task pane.
Can anyone else reproduce this issue? Is opening a child window from a task pane not allowed, or is there something extra you must do to make this work?
Thanks.
Not seen this issue, it would be helpful if you can share some more info on this
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We have PDF forms. Business user fills data in the form and click on submit button which opens a new email window of Outlook with predefined email IDs and the form data attached as XFDF. Later user clicks on a button in outlook ribbon which calls the macros to sign, encrypt, send and then archive the message. It had worked successfully for 3 years.
The outlook ribbon button stopped calling Macro in November-2019. The ribbon button works perfectly if we open Outlook new email window directly from Outlook but was not working when opened from Adobe PDF forms. After alot of investigation, we have found that the Outlook new email window has been opening in Safe mode when Adobe PDF form invokes it, so the Outlook macros are not callable (new email window opens in safe mode even though outlook is in normal mode).
The forms use below code to submit PDF form data as XFDF to Outlook:
this.submitForm({cURL: cEmailURL, bAnnotations: true, aFields: aSubmitFields,cSubmitAs:"XFDF", cCharSet:"utf-8"}
Please help us to fix it.
I'd suggest checking the Trust Center settings in Outlook. Most probably somebody has changed the Macro Security to Notifications for digitally signed macros, all other macros disabled on the Developer tab in Microsoft Outlook.
We have developed an Outlook web Add-in but currently when the task pane is open and we open another outlook add-in, our one closes and is replaced with the last selected one. Is there a way to have the task panes stack next to one another so that you can have more than one task pane open at the same time. Appreciate that screen real-estate is an issue but at least 2 would be nice. I thought that I had seen this working somewhere.
Currently there is no way to have two add-ins open side-by-side. 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.
You can make your add-in pinnable, this way your add-in will not be closed when another add-in is opened.
Is there a way to open task pane from the dialog window in Outlook?
We perform the login operation in the Dialog window, however, by the nature of the add-in the Login is directly prompted from the ribbon. Hence, the user does not realise that there is a task pane where more customizations are possible. We want to open the taskpane post login (without requiring the user to click the icon on ribbon)
Currently the 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.
I have a macro that sends a reply to email selected in the inbox. I assigned it to the Quick Access Toolbar and run it by pressing alt+1.
The hotkey does not work when I view the email itself (I sometimes open it from within a task). In email view I can go to the macros ribbon and run it manually and it works, but I can't find the way to run it with the hotkey. Any suggestions?
I need to view email and decide if I run the reply macro or not, so a solution to run it on open action won't work.
edit: solution i comments
There is a separate Quick Access Toolbar for open mailitems. If the 1 is over the Save icon, you are currently saving with Alt+1.
If the code can process ActiveInspector.CurrentItem then you can add the macro.
I have added a solution module having a custom folder in MS outlook 2010. I need to open a windows form on folder click event. The form should display in main central region of outlook window (I think it is called an inspector).
How can I achieve this?
You can monitor the Explorer.FolderSwitch event and display your form if the desired folder is current.