change the ribbon if new outlook-folder is selected - vba

I want to show/hide Buttons depending on the Name of the actual Folder.
No Problem to do this with
Me.btn1.Visible = True 'or false, whatever is necessary
But: how can I check for a change of the current Folder?
Thanks
Max

Your ribbon XML must specify the getVisible callback name.
Call IRibbonUI.Invalidate, Outlook will then invoke your getVisible/getEnabled callbacks.
IRibbonUI can be cached when Outlook invokes your onLoad callback (specified on the customUI XML element).

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Modifying default behavior of outlook buttons

Is it possible to modify the behavior of existing buttons in outlook (or generally in ms office programs)? E.g. can I make the "send mail" button show a dialog before sending a mail?
I know that you can make add ins and put them into ribbon but can you add certain behavior to existing controls?
Use Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook und handle the Send event. You can find the documentation here.
You have use your application reference to get the active inspector and by the active inspector you retrieve the message class:
(CType(inspector.CurrentItem, Outlook.ItemEvents_10_Event)).Send += New Outlook.ItemEvents_10_SendEventHandler(Inspector_Send)
Private Sub Inspector_Send(ByRef Cancel As Boolean)
... your code...
End Sub

Set a ribbon togglebutton programmatically on load

I am trying to set a ribbon togglebutton to true at the start of outlook. I did not use the designer but used XML to design the ribbon. Creating an attribute of isChecked in the XML does not seem to be called or used in any way. Any ideas?
For the toggleButton element, the callback name is getPressed, not isChecked.

Handling save event in Outlook

Good morning, I need my VBA code to run right before the TaskItem is saved, is there any way I can handle the event of saving ? I cannot find anything I could use in documentation. I am using MS-Office 2010.
Edit: I have tried
Private Sub TaskItem_Quit()
The macro disappears from macro list, but the code still does not run.
Try the Write event.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff868664.aspx
"Occurs when an instance of the parent object is saved, either explicitly (for example, using the Save or SaveAs methods) or implicitly (for example, in response to a prompt when closing the item's inspector)."

Is it possible to have an extension library dialog box within a repeat control?

I'm running with an 8.5.3 UP1 server and I have a need to have many dialog boxes (for confirmation purposes) for a whole bunch of "action buttons" on an xpage. The code for these dialog boxes is almost exactly the same with the exception of the confirmation message being different and the client-side JS function they are calling if the Yes button is selected.
Since I really hate repeating code over and over, I was wondering if it is at all possible to put a xe:dialog control within a repeat control and specify the message and function call from an array of values? I know I can't compute the ID of the dialog control and without that I'm not sure how I would reference the dialog to open and close it.
Any ideas? Thanks
Yes, this is possible.
Make sure that you specify that the dialog box's property for keepComponents is set to False. You don;t have to do anything special for opening or closing the dialog box, just use whatever ID you give the dialog box in you client-side action to open the dialog box in the repeat such as XSP.openDialog('#{id:myDialog}')
The XPages renderer will automatically calculate the correct ID names for you.

Refreshing the ribbon interface after a call from a macro in an excel sheet

Here is my scenario:
I have an old excel project with macros that I've imported in a vsto project.
I have designed a custom ribbon (startFromScratch = true) to make it look like a dictator application.
I still want to use the existing macro code since it would take too much time to translate all the vba code in c# code
I have a class that is marked with the [ComVisible(true)] attribute so that I can call vsto methods from the vba code.
The problem is that I can't hide tabs, I can't get the ribbon to refresh. I can change the state of other controls (e.g. set checked state for CheckBox), but I can't hide or disable my custom tabs.
I have tried PerformLayout(), PerformDynamicLayout() on the ribbon, ribbon.RibbonUI.Invalidate(), but nothing works, the tab never changes state, although in code I set its visible property to false.
What do I need to do in order to refresh the ribbon at runtime?
Edit:
I just tried the same thing by exporting the ribbon to xml and the Invalidate() method works as expected. Is there any way to accomplish this for a ribbon designed with the visual editor?
I've replicated your problem when I set the StartFromScratch property of the ribbon to True, but it goes away when I set it to False. This is confirmed by MSDN.
You cannot change the visibility of custom tabs at run time if this property is set to true.
As a workaround, set StartFromScratch to False, add in a tab for each default tab, setting the ControlIdType of each to Office and the OfficeId of each to their default name (TabHome, TabFormulas, etc.), then set each of these built-in tab's visibility to False. (MSDN has made available a full list of control IDs for their Office apps for easy reference.)