Office Add-ins community call-November 2019
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The Office Add-ins Developer Community Call on November 13, 2019, featured updates on Office add-ins, including the release of mailbox 1.8 and new features like single sign-on in Outlook add-ins. Presenters shared advancements in Excel APIs and dynamic arrays, as well as upcoming documentation updates and resources for developers. The next community call is scheduled for December 11, 2019.
Office Add-ins community call-November 2019
- 1. Office Add-ins Developer community call November 13, 2019 8:00 AM PST
- 2. • https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall • Next call: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 • Meet the product teams behind Office Add-ins • What’s new and coming soon • Technical deep dives • Customer presentations • Q&A About the community call
- 3. Call agenda • Office Add-ins overview • Updates from Microsoft Ignite • Office Add-ins SSO • Documentation updates • Q&A
- 4. Presenters Dev Writer Alex Jerabek Sr. Program Manager Nitesh Golchha Michelle Scharlock Dev WriterSr. Program Manager Juan Balmori Labra Keyur Patel Sr. Program Manager
- 5. Office Add-ins Overview Alex Jerabek, Dev Writer
- 6. Add-inAdd-in Add-in Add-in Web App Manifest fileAdd-in
- 7. Add-in Web APIs, Azure services, cloud storage, analytics Office.js
- 9. Updates from Microsoft Ignite Juan Balmori Labra, Sr. Program Manager
- 11. Announcement: Mailbox 1.8 released! • Internet Headers 16.0.12130.20272
- 12. New Scenarios 1. Online Meetings 2. Autorun add-ins!
- 13. What’s coming ! Single Sign-On in Outlook Add-ins • Authenticate the user • Access user’s rich data on Microsoft Graph SPFx in Outlook • Announced as part of SPFX 1.10 • Use the share point hosting capabilities to build add-in that can work across Office, Sharepoint & teams
- 14. Important Announcement! • We are about to release a re-engineered version of Outlook JS API. (early 2020) • Why? • Remove MSAjax Dependency • Ship improvements faster! • Reduced size ~30% • PLEASE HELP US. • Test using our Preview CDN • https://appsforoffice.microsoft.com/lib/preview/hosted/Office.js • Debug: https://appsforoffice.microsoft.com/lib/preview/hosted/Office.debug.js • Log ANY issue here: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js
- 15. Keyur Patel, Sr. Program Manager
- 16. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 #APIS API Release Excel APIs: Accelerating towards full API parity 2000 JavaScript APIs for Excel! 1.10 APIs: +150 new APIs for better dashboards and co- authoring, events
- 17. Excel Custom Functions context sharing (preview) Easily share state between your custom functions and taskpane (and commands), and…. • Support for httpOnlyCookies • Enables full CORS support • Make calls to the Microsoft Graph • Respond to onCalculate events without taskpane being open Learn more: https://aka.ms/customfunctions
- 18. Excel: Moving beyond the task pane Single Sign On Dynamic Ribbon APIs Enable/Disable Ribbon commands Hide/Show Ribbon Tabs Events Get notified of events without your taskpane being visible Hide/show taskpanes Dialogs Send messages to your dialog from your taskpane
- 19. Office Scripts
- 20. Excel Custom Functions and Dynamic Arrays • Excel Dynamic Arrays are rolling out to production, starting with Excel for the web this week. • Note: you may see an @ decorator for workbooks with UDFs saved from previous versoins of Excel. Calculation is the same, and first time folks will see a call out.
- 21. Office Add-ins SSO Nitesh Golchha Senior Program Manager
- 22. Understand user signed into Office Access user’s rich data on Microsoft Graph
- 23. The Single Sign-On API let token = await Office.Runtime.auth.getAccessToken({allowConsentPrompt = true})
- 25. API Updates
- 26. Apps, Platform and Scenario support PLATFORM APPS SCENARIO
- 27. Looking forward • Access to Graph when user acquires add-in • Support for Single Page Applications • Dynamic consenting • MSA support in Outlook and OWA • SSO support on iOS and Android
- 28. Next steps and to-dos Take our survey at https://aka.ms/OfficeSSOsurvey 5 minutes of your time will help us build a better experience Try out our new SSO samples at https://aka.ms/ssoNodeSample and https://aka.ms/ssoDotnetSample • Works on only latest Insider builds • Reference our beta CDN • We’ve not yet enabled Store submissions so test in your development environment only • Grab latest API from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/office-runtime/officeruntime.auth?view=excel-js-preview Log any issues you see on GitHub/Stackoverflow Shoot me an email if you see any issues at [email protected]
- 29. Documentation Updates Michelle Scharlock, Dev Writer
- 30. MS Learn Extensibility Modules • Beginner level module about extensibility on MS Learn live • In the pipeline: modules on SharePoint Framework, Teams, Microsoft Graph, MS Identity, Office add-ins • Try it here • Quarterly refreshed content can be found on Github
- 31. • Handle and Return Errors from your custom function (preview) • Tutorial: Share data and events between Excel custom functions and the task pane (preview) • Enable SSO for Office Add-ins • Authorize to Microsoft Graph with SSO (preview) • Troubleshoot error messages for SSO (preview) • Outlook 1.8 Requirement Set & reference • ExcelApi 1.10 Requirement Set & reference • Common coding issues topic Recent Documentation Updates
- 32. Engage with us! Are you interested in... * Presenting during an upcoming call? * Providing feedback about the docs? aka.ms/office-add-ins-engage
- 33. Q&A (post questions in chat window)
- 34. Learn Engage Developer resources What Where Office 365 Developer Program https://aka.ms/officedevprogram Script Lab https://aka.ms/getscriptlab Office Add-ins documentation https://aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs Custom Functions https://aka.ms/customfunctions What Where Stack Overflow (questions) https://stackoverflow.com office-js outlook-web-addins GitHub (issues) https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js UserVoice (feature requests) https://officespdev.uservoice.com Send a Smile or Frown Inside Office
- 35. • Recording will be available soon on Office Developer YouTube • https://aka.ms/OfficeDevYouTube • Next call: Wednesday December 11th, 2019 • Submit your questions: https://aka.ms/officeaddinsform • Add to your calendar: https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall Thank you
Editor's Notes
- #17: As you may be well aware of, there are a lot of functionality in Excel and therefore also a need for a lot of APIs. This chart shows the releases since Jan 2016 and the total # of APIs available from JavaScript In the past 2 years we have accelerated towards full API parity with COM and VBA We are adding the most used APIs first and we have made significant progress
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- #22: The SSO API has been in preview from some time What we’ve done in that time is: Look up to you and understood your SSO requirements and based on that understanding, we’ve given the API a shape Made some improvements to the API As a direct result, we’ve refreshed the API in-preview and have created a path to take this API to GA in a couple of months from now if everything looks good. We need your feedback to help us accelerate along this path
- #23: Consider a powerpoint application with an add-in running inside it. The SSO API allows the add-in to sign-in the user using their Microsoft Identity or authenticate the user to the add-in..pt no. 1 . Point no. 2 – it also allows the add-in to access user’s rich data on Microsoft Graph. Combine these two and you get a very powerful and useful API that allows you to create user centric experiences. Let’s consider a scenario to understand what I mean…
- #25: Tooling: Lets you get started with SSO quickly with less than 10 steps to get the code up and running Creates all the infrastructure for you Going to be publicly available very soon
- #26: Callbacks -> Promises (improves developer experience) Removes the need for nested callbacks Allows you to write readable code can use async await syntax to write synchronous like code
- #27: We’ll support access to Graph using the SSO API for admin deployments only for the purpose of this release and we’ll continue to add more support later.
- #28: Looking forward, there are a bunch of things that we aspire to do. We won't have these in the first release, but there on our roadmap Primarily,… So a key takeaway from this discussion is that: 1. we have now laid a solid foundation for moving forward, we’ll continue to evolve the SSO API beyond this point. 2. You should try out the new API and give us your feedback. 3. Unless I hear back some feedback that forces us to take drastic actions, you’ll see me in maybe a couple of months announcing the GA date of the SSO API, which brings us to some key to-dos
- #29: Asks One - take our survey Two - out the new created SSO samples and give us your feedback Three - raise any issue you see on Github or Stackoverflow – We’re actively listening and resolving any issue we see there so be rest assured, you will get a prompt response