I am trying to build my own WOPI host using ASP.NET MVC and its WebAPI functions according to this example
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Building-an-Office-Web-f98650d6
I successfully used that example to connect to my Office Web App Server and I can use that to access files of Excel and PowerPoint in local path and I am able to edit it, but I cannot use it to open word document in editing mode as the Post action handler isn't implemented completely without any response so that it cannot handle any edit request.
In order to add support for editing of Office document, I tried this example with POST request handler based on Cobalt library extracted from Office Web App Server.
https://github.com/marx-yu/WopiHost
With this example I managed to edit ans save all kinds of document with Office Web App Server. However, when I tried to integrate these two together I found that even if I can enter the edit window of Excel and PowerPoint and I can see that Post Requests from Office Web App Server like locking and Cobalt are handled by my WOPI Post API action handler. Those change doesn't take any effect on my local file at all. Moreover, I still cannot edit word document and when I checked the back log of Office Web App Server, I found the error message is Cobalt is not supported while I have already set the SupportsCobalt in CheckFileInfo response to true! Any help is very appreciated!
I think I have exactly what you are looking for. Check out my implementation of the WOPI host. It's an MVC6 app that takes the best from the both examples you are referring to and adds some extra features.
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I have an outlook addin that I've built using Yeoman. The addin communicates with a server API on my server to combine data from an email with additional data from a database that a user has saved against an email address. This is all working great.
Next I want to store a copy of the email server side, as a file on disk, .msg preferred but I'll take a .eml if thats the only option.
I have 2 options but don't know if either are possible. Either the addin generates the .msg file and posts it to the server API OR the server side API generates the .msg file directly. I have got the server side using the Outlook v2 API and able to pull back the email information when the client passes it the token, id etc. If it could just generate/download a .msg file server side this would be ideal.
As a side note, many of the Microsoft API pages point out the deprecation of the Outlook API in favor of the Graph API, however there are inconsistent links between the pages and it get confusing. I have discovered the token from getCallbackTokenAsync only works with the Outlook API and not Graph, but I cant find out a way to generate a graph compatible token. All the example code from MS uses Office.context.mailbox.restUrl which still gives the Outlook API url and not Graph!
So I guess I'm trying to find out if it's even possible to get/generate a .msg or .eml file either client side using outlook.js or server side using one of the api's. Thank you.
I can get message data both client and server side but cannot get a physical email file.
The Office JavaScript API (OfficeJS) doesn't provide anything for saving messages as msg files (or getting streams). The best what you could do is to use Graph API where you could get the EML file, see Get MIME content of a message for more information.
The server-side code may use the OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of flow (OBO) to request a new access token with permissions to Microsoft Graph. Read more about that in the Authorize to Microsoft Graph with SSO article.
The on-behalf-of (OBO) flow describes the scenario of a web API using an identity other than its own to call another web API. Referred to as delegation in OAuth, the intent is to pass a user's identity and permissions through the request chain.
For the middle-tier service to make authenticated requests to the downstream service, it needs to secure an access token from the Microsoft identity platform. It only uses delegated scopes and not application roles. Roles remain attached to the principal (the user) and never to the application operating on the user's behalf. This occurs to prevent the user gaining permission to resources they shouldn't have access to. See Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of flow for more information.
Eugene's answer is good. If ultimately you need to get that message to your backend service, using Graph as Eugune described would be the recommended approach. If for whatever reason you are still looking for a capability to access it on client using Office.js, it is not a part of the product. 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. Note there is already a couple of similar ideas there, if you search for "eml" keyword, that you may want to upvote.
Has anyone integrated the webchat/directline from Microsoft Botframework with Atlassian Confluence
We are exploring options to host a chatbot on one of the wikis powered by Confluence
Any directions/guidance will help;
The only option I see is to use the "/" (slash) command and add an embedded iframe into the space's page. It's possible to backup and download, edit, and upload and restore a page however, the exported page is in XML. So, editing a backed up page wouldn't give you access to the HTML needed to truly integrate Web Chat into the page.
As for the slash command, you will need to develop a separate web app to host the Web Chat instance. Then, simply provide the values required in the iframe macro tool, and you should be set.
iframe macro:
Published page:
Hope of help!
The webpage Template loads data via some json data we get from the endpoint.
I have a Rest Api and a Angular Front end . The Angular app populates the template from the data coming in from the rest api which we can see in the Network Tab of Chrome Developer Tools.
Is there any way we can modify the Rest data in Network tab and see the changes that occurs in the Webpage.
Is that even possible, It might sound a stupid question but i guess this might be a very special tool if there is not much interaction between the Back end and Front end teams.
I am not quite sure if i am able to explain it properly but this was the best i could edit please bear with me thanks
Just a Screen Shot of the type of data in Network tab.
Sample Data Network Tab
It is not possible from chrome's network tab. You have to use BurpSuite for example which is available in Kali linux as a default. With that you can intercept http requests and responses and modify it's payload.
You can get it from here: https://portswigger.net/burp/
No, you're not able to modify XHR data as you can other sources. What I do is just copy the file to my local drive and temporarily modify it's source. I test responses from API's using Postman and it's pretty awesome.
I have to say I'm a little bit afraid for you though. It's not a great idea to be consuming services from external api's from the client side. Are your API keys and passwords hanging out in that client side code somewhere?
I've been searching for almost 2 days, but I still don't manage to do what I want.
I have a ASP.NET MVC3 application on Windows Azure, and I would like to give to users report made with SQL Server Reporting Services.
I've created a test report, published it on my Sql Azure server, and I'm able to access it with the URL. (Even tough I have to connect with my Username/Password, and I don't like that).
I want my users to click on a link/button on my application, and without any actions of them, a PDF or HTML version of my report open and they can print it.
I've had a WebReference of my Sql Azure report server, but I don't know what to do to athenticate programmatically and how to have my reports.
Help me StackOverflow, you're my only hope.
The easiest way, I think, is to use the Report Viewer to render your report on a page. Since it's a web control, you might need to combine the ASP.NET Web Form and MVC together, which means only this page is Web Form while others are MVC.
Then you can pass your authentication information into the Report Viewer, and specify the remote report path and name, and the parameters needed to run your report. The Report Viewer itself has the feature to download the report in many formats, such as PDF, Word, etc.
Use the SSRS web service is another way, when you want to get the report content programmatically. It's a standard web service, so you can pass your authentication same way you did to any other web services. I think it should be something like Credential and use.
Credential = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your answer !
I've found this sample my Microsoft with working code exemple to work with Sql Azure. Hope it can help somebody one day.
I'm having a really hard time trying to find a resource or online tutorial that explicitly walks you through setting up a WF4 workflow activity that can call out to an external web service. All the videos and online samples I've come across simply demonstrate how to consume a web service that's part of your Visual Studio solution, but my situation entails calling out to a web service on a non-Microsoft server.
I have a service reference added to my VS2010 workflow console project for the web service in question, and it's pointing to the WSDL of the external web service. So far, so good (I think). I have a very basic workflow sequence, using a SendAndReceiveReply workflow control to communicate with the external server, and I believe I have the Send piece configured correctly. The ReceiveReplyForSend is giving me trouble, however, and I'm not sure if I have its Content options set up the right way. I'm invoking an operation called FileCheck, which at the moment for testing purposes always returns a value of 1 like this:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<FileCheckResponse>
<FileCheckResult>1</FileCheckResult>
</FileCheckResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
If I try to run this, however, I get the error "Badly formed SOAP message." For what it's worth, my ReceiveReplyForSend has a single parameter set up called FileCheckResult, though I don't know if that's the correct way to get the above value.
I can put a breakpoint at either activity, but I have no idea how to see what the SOAP call looks like at that point. Can someone either give me some workflow Send/Reply debugging tips or point me in the direction of an excellent step-by-step tutorial of how to consume an external web service in WF4?
Update on Feb. 2, 2011: Thanks to Maurice's suggestion, I see exactly what is failing now. The web service call in my workflow is failing because Visual Studio is generating a reference to the wrong namespace in my workflow Send call. Here is the single bit of XML that is wrong in the SOAP message - I'll leave off the rest of the SOAP envelope for succinctness:
<FileCheck xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
This is what the WCF Test Client generates, which gets a successful message in return:
<FileCheck xmlns="http://someserver.org/test/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
This is probably a really newbie question, but is there a setting somewhere that I'm overlooking that adjusts the xmlns value? I tried searching for "tempuri" in my project, but it's nowhere to be found, so I bet I'm overlooking a default setting somewhere.
Update on February 8, 2011: Maurice's latest tip did the trick! I needed to add the proper namespace to the ServiceContractName property for my Send workflow activity.
Adding a reference to an external web service is not much harder than one that is part of the same VS2010 solution. Only in this case you need to provide the URL where VS2010 can find the web service WSDL. As the communications mechanism is standard WSDL and SOAP there should not be a problem in calling the other service.
If you want to debug messages the best tool to use is Fiddler. It will let you see messages on the wire and even build request on the fly. If you have an existing client that can work with the service in question you can monitor its messages and compare them with the messages you are sending. Provided the service doesn't use complex and custom data types the WCF Test Client is a good way to check if the service responds with a standard .NET client app.
The SOAP namepsace is part of the ServiceContractName. Use the following syntax
{http://someserver.org/test/}FileService