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.
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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
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 have an Outlook add-in and I'd like to close the add-in when I click on the "Close" customized button that I have inside the add-in and not on the "Close" - 'X' button of the add-in.
I was trying to find a reference inside the Outlook add-in documentation but without success.
Which office API request I need to use? any link/reference to it?
Thanks
Currently the API to close the add-in is not there. 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.
Is it possible for a javascript-based send add-in for Outlook to present a custom UI like you can in the VSTO add-in model? Based on all the examples I've seen, it looks like they only determine whether the message can be sent based on some analysis performed on the Outlook item. An alternative solution would be two write two add-ins, one task pane and one send. The task pane add in would have to be explicitly invoked, which would add another step that my users do not need to perform with the VSTO add-in. The send add-in would analyze the message to determine whether the task pane add-in has acted on the message. If there's a way to display a UI in the send add-in, users could still use their existing workflow to get their messages processed as they are accustomed to. Thanks in advance!
It isn't possible to surface a customer UI using On Send. If the message fails your validation process, Outlook handles surfacing your message:
Also keep in mind that each add-in runs within it's own sandbox. It isn't possible for one add-in to trigger another or to send messages between two add-ins from within Outlook. You good handle cross-add-in messaging via a shared back-end but this wouldn't help in an On Send scenario.