In Outlook 2010 VSTO, how to hide builtin Groups?

Question

I am trying to hide Built-In Groups (GroupContactsNew) in TabContacts. I have tried below CustomUI but "getTabContactGroupEnabled" never fires.

Does anyone knows how to do this? BTW: I was able to make entire "TabContacts" tab invisible by registering "getVisible" callback method at tab level.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui" onLoad="Ribbon_Load">


<ribbon startFromScratch="false">
<tabs>
  <tab idMso="TabContacts">  
<group idMso="GroupContactsNew" getEnabled="getTabContactGroupEnabled">
    </group>
  </tab>
</tabs>

Regards, Ramesh

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '15 at 16:24

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Ramesh,

You need to rebuild the UI from scratch setting the startFromScratch attribute to true and defining tabs, groups and controls anew, declaring them with the idMso values. In that case you will be able to handle callbacks of the built-in controls.

Read more about the Ribbon UI (aka Fluent UI) in the following series of articles in MSDN:

answered Apr 21 '15 at 16:24

Eugene Astafiev

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One thing forgotten to mention, my Add-in is developed using Outlook 2010. I already have ribbon define. Sample is given earlier. when I add callback function for idMso at group level it doesn't work. Do you have any working sample for Outlook 2010 add-in? – user2788788 Apr 21 '15 at 17:29
You need to have the startFromScratch attribute set to true to get it working. – Eugene Astafiev Apr 21 '15 at 17:32
I did that as well. any suggestions what is wrong in below ribbon XML? – user2788788 Apr 21 '15 at 17:52
You need to use the **getVisible** callback instead. – Eugene Astafiev Apr 21 '15 at 18:29

In Outlook 2010 VSTO, how to hide builtin Groups?

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