i'm running timer on task pane Add-in in outlook. when user inactive means if user switch to other tab I need to stop timer and when user back click on outlook mail, I need to resume timer. can anyone guide how to do this?
OfficeJS doesn't provide any events for that. You may consider posting your suggestion to the Tech Community at https://aka.ms/M365dev-suggestions, feature requests are considered when the team goes through our planning process. Don't forget to use the Github label: “Type: product feature request”.
In case of COM based add-ins (VSTO) you could handle the Inspector.Activate an Inspector.Deactivate events for the inspector windows in Outlook. If you need to deal with Explorer windows you may consider using the Explorer.Activate
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I have an Outloook Add-in that implements a kind of client-server communication with a background process. I have a custom window which is filled in with some information and then it is passed in to a background process (using System.Net.HttpClient.PostAsync) which processes it.
After background process finishes processing that information, it informs to Outlook Add-in about that, then Outlook Add-in handle this, creates a new Outlook email that appears as a new message in the Outlook inbox and finally shows a windows notification in the system tray informing the user about that.
Now I would like to handle from Outlook Add-in the event that is fired when user clicks on the Windows notification popup in the system tray so that Outlook Add-in can open a new window to display all the information processed by the background process.
So is it possible to do it? If so, could you please provide me some code snippets or examples, or even some kind of guide to start in? I have google and I haven't found anything about that.
Yes, it is possible. But VSTO (nor Outlook) doesn't provide anything for that. That is a pure .net topic. Consider your VSTO add-in as a regular Windows application based on .net platform.
I suppose the NotifyIcon component is used for displaying a notification in the tray. In that case you can use the NotifyIcon.BalloonTipClicked event which is fired when the balloon tip is clicked.
The following code example demonstrates the use of this member. In the example, an event handler reports on the occurrence of the BalloonTipClicked event. This report helps you to learn when the event occurs and can assist you in debugging. To report on multiple events or on events that occur frequently, consider replacing MessageBox.Show with Console.WriteLine or appending the message to a multiline TextBox.
To run the example code, paste it into a project that contains an instance of type NotifyIcon named NotifyIcon1. Then ensure that the event handler is associated with the BalloonTipClicked event.
MessageBox.Show("You are in the NotifyIcon.BalloonTipClicked event.");
So you are trying to create a fake email in the Inbox folder that looks like it was received? You cannot force Outlook to display new message notification - that can only be done from a transport provider by calling IMAPISupport::Notify and passing fnewNewMail flag.
You can of course create a fake message in the Inbox folder that looks like it was received (a bit convoluted in OOM but very easy using Redemption (I am its author) or Extended MAPI).
The best you can do is create your own tray notification that will open the message and display it (MailItem.Display) when the user clicks on it.
In the Outlook calendar i want to trigger Outlook creates event functionality in my outlook add-ins when I open the Outlook calendar, Is there are any handlers available for this use case?
I want to trigger create the event functionality in the outlook add-ins using the rest-API when I open the Outlook calendar.
Any handler is available for this, the outlook calendar open ?
Thanks in Advance.
Outlook web add-ins are working under the context of current item only. You can't handle folder's change events like you could in case of COM add-ins. The event-based activation mechanism recently introduced is described in the Configure your Outlook add-in for event-based activation article. This feature enables your add-in to run tasks based on certain events, particularly for operations that apply to every item (not folder). You can also integrate with the task pane and UI-less functionality.
I want the user to press on a command button which will run an API. If the API returns results, I want this to launch the taskpane and then display the result of the API.
Is this possible?
If we speak about web add-ins the task pane is launched by the button click independently of API results. At runtime you may decided what to display on the task pane.
But if you mean a custom task pane as a part of COM add-in you can do whatever you like - hide, show and etc.
For web add-ins, launching a task pane after running some code/API is not possible today. 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.
Here are two alternatives I would suggest considering to see if they can work for your scenario
adding a command with ExecuteFunction as an action https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/reference/manifest/functionfile and launching a dialog (displayDialogAsync)
Or, run ExecuteFunction that adds notification message with an action link that user can click to open a taskpane https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/outlook/office.notificationmessageaction?view=outlook-js-preview
I'm trying to develop an add-in in office outlook where add-in should automatically read incoming emails and process my logic to it. I have developed the functionality when I have to specifically click the email to process my logic. But I want the functionality where the add-in should automatically process all incoming emails without manually clicking them.
Have implemented below points as of now:
outlook pinnable task pane
Item Changed Event
Office.context.mailbox.addHandlerAsync(Office.EventType.ItemChanged, ItemChanged);
function ItemChanged(eventArgs) {
/*code*/
}
This is currently not possible. The addins are tied to the item in the view and hence the item needs to be selected for the add-in to work on. 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.
Whenever I have an add-in open in outlook, it closes immediately when I open a different email. Is there a way to keep an add-in open while I browse through multiple emails? Or is outlook coded in such a way that forces the add-in to close every time you click on a different email?
Thanks.
As far as I understand your questions you are the user of the Outlook Add-on. If this is correct, you will not be able to change this behavior. Every time you switch the item you would need to click to invoke the add-on once again. You may also contact the developers of this add-on and request them to implement a pinnable taskpane with explanation of your business case.
Well, if I was wrong and you are the developer of this add-on, you should look at pinnable taskpane in Outlook. This would cover exactly the case you have described. What you would need to do is just support VersionOverrides v1.1 schema in your add-on manifest as well as register and implement the Office.EventType.ItemChanged event handler in your add-on JS implementation.