I have a FBA website and then I extended it (to use Windows Authentication) to be able to access it with Sharepoint Designer. It is MOSS 2007 BTW.
When I open the extended site with the designer, it shows the MOSS website hierarchy but doubleclicking a aspx or .master files it does nothing.
I can open it in notepad... but not in the Sharepoint Designer.
Any suggestion on what may be wrong with this website/ designer?
Thanks!
Is this a trial version of the SharePoint Designer?
It has happened that the trial version might not open the pages for you as explained here.
Otherwise, right-click on the page you wish to open and see/pick your option accordingly.
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How can we add a custom option in "File Menu/Tab" by custom "Office Addin"?
I can find how to add "Control" in an office tab using "ExtensionPoint". But I am unable to find how can we add a custom option in "File Menu". Following are the documentation links I have gone through.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/reference/manifest/extensionpoint
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/reference/manifest/officetab
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The Backstage UI can't be customized with web add-ins. See Add-in commands for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word for more information about possible customizations.
Feature requests on Tech Community are considered, when the dev team go through the planning process. Use the github label: “Type: product feature request” at https://aka.ms/M365dev-suggestions .
FYI these customizations are possible using COM add-ins, so you may also consider creating a VSTO based add-in instead, see Walkthrough: Create your first VSTO Add-in for Outlook.
I want to add "open in desktop app" feature for Microsoft office document uploaded in my SaaS product. Is there a an API from Microsoft which allows me to achieve that seamlessly?
Yes there is. See Office URI Schemes
To open an Excel file you can do something like this:
ms-excel:ofe|u|https://locationofthefile.com/file.xls
Use ofe to open a file and edit or ofv to open a file and view.
There are more complex options as you can read in the docs. But this will probably do it for the most cases
Application
URI
Word
ms-word:
Power Point
ms-powerpoint:
Visio
ms-visio:
Access
ms-access:
Project
ms-project:
Publisher
ms-publisher:
SharePoint
ms-spd:
Infopath
ms-infopath:
i am developing an excel add-ins using office.js, i want to keep the different configuration settings in the web.config files, and read those settings in the java-script file. how to do that.
is office add-in sample project is MVC asp.net project, should i be returning the view from there and my source location in manifest point to that view.
please guide me to correct approach.
Generally speaking, this is not something that is Office Add-in specific. You would you would use the same approach as with a regular website. For example, see Reading web.config from JavaScript.
In terms of the manifest start URL, you can point it at any web-browsable page, it doesn't have to end with .html. So you can use an aspx or MVC view page. Alternatively, you can have an html/js/css page that makes an AJAX web service call to your own web API that returns you the settings. If I may recommend, see my blog post for how to create a web service for an Office Add-in using the ASP.NET Web API.
Hope this helps!
~ Michael Zlatkovsky, developer on Office Extensibility team, MSFT
The issue: we have a Document Library which is used for storing emails.
They are frequently viewed and constant download/open with Outlook takes a lot of extra time. We want to make them openable in browser or at least to be available for preview (like Word, Excel, PDF).
In SharePoint Server/Foundation this can achieved by altering Web Application Setting (Browser File Handling) but SharePoint Online lacks such configuration.
Do you know about any OOTB solution or JavaScript library that can help with that?
As far as I know there are no OOTB solutions or JavaScript libraries to help out.
There is a 3rd party tool that offers this capability. SLIM Companion is a browser-based tool that mimics SharePoint as Windows Explorer. It uses the standard functionality from Outlook to create msg files; when users upload msg files it automatically extracts email metadata and populates the corresponding SharePoint columns. Users can drag emails from Outlook to the desktop and then to SharePoint and the metadata is extracted. SLIM Companion previews msg files in SharePoint without opening Outlook, displaying it in the browser. Attachments can be opened directly without first downloading the msg file in Outlook. SLIM Companion consists of a single 200 kB html file and does not require any software installs on SharePoint or the user's computer. See https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/outlook-sharepoint-integration-using-browser-paul-h-k-de-jong or www.slimapplications.com for further details.
Paul de Jong | SLIM Applications
I am working on a project where we are taking a bunch of documents authored using MS Word and placing them online. Currently they are being published as PDF documents in order to maintain the formatting.
We are evaluating Content Management Systems (CMS), however, there is a bit of reluctance among the content publishers to use the CMS built in WYSYWIG editor. I can understand why, they are nowhere near as good as Word!
Some CMS have decent 'paste from Word' functions, but the one I have found that handles images as well is this Wordpress pluging.
My question is - are there any Content Management Systems that have been built with Word integration in mind? Something that makes it as easy as possible to publish Word documents as HTML.
So far from what I have seen, Microsoft Sharepoint had the best integration with the MS Office. I think most of them use Sharepoint as a intranet portal, but it could be also hosted as a public facing website. But compared to other CMS, it can be little pricey. But it has tons of features apart from content management.
Sharepoint Demo
Public Facing Sharepoint Websites
Microsoft Word does publish documents as HTML.
File > Save As > Web Page (Filtered)
Office.com - Save a document as a webpage
ahmednuaman/gdrive-cms-php uses Google Drive as a pseudo back-end to store and edit pages (Documents).
The self-hosted PHP and MySQL CMS requests text/HTML-exports of to display as web pages.
It also simplifies authentication and group permissions (if the editors are already Google/Drive users).