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Office 365 add-ins lets you create consumer and enterprise experiences running within supported Office 2013 applications by using the power of the web and standard web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, JavaScript, and REST APIs. An app for Office is basically a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application. Use this tag when referring to Office 365 add-ins only.

Office 365 add-ins lets you create consumer and enterprise experiences running within supported Office 2013 applications by using the power of the web and standard web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, and JavaScript.

An Office add-in is basically a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application. You can use apps to extend the functionality of a document, email message, meeting request, or appointment. Add-ins can run in multiple environments and clients, including rich Office desktop clients, Office Web Apps, mobile browsers, and also on-premises and in the cloud.

This document provides a quick overview of the Add-ins for Office platform, how an app works inside of an Office application, and how you publish an add-in to the Office Store or to an onsite catalog for consumers to use.

There are several types of add-ins available:

Supported applications:

   Application      | Task pane | Content | Mail
  _______________________________________________
   Excel 2013       |     •     |    •    |
   Excel Web App    |     •     |    •    |
   Word 2013        |     •     |         |
   Outlook 2013     |           |         |   •
   Outlook Web App  |           |         |   •
   PowerPoint 2013  |     •     |         |
   Project Pro 2013 |     •     |         |

Resources:

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Is it possible to intercept email sent button click event using office 365 javascript apps with office-js

Is it possible to intercept email sent button click event using office 365 javascript apps with office-js and is there any roadmap to know future feature sets of office-js ?
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Office 365 mail statistics

I am trying to collect mail statistics across multiple users in my organization. Ideally I would like to build a service or a daemon that uses the Notification API's, to receive notification whenever a user in the organization receives a mail in his…
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How do you register your application to use the Office 365 Outlook REST API?

The documentation isn't clear on how to register your application to access the Office 365 outlook REST API. The documentation seems to say to go to the Microsoft Application Registration Portal, but logging in with 3 different accounts fails.
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Detecting Office addin host without including office.js

In our webapp, we would like to be able to show different content at the same URL based on the host from which the site is opened. E.g https://localhost:44300 will behave differently depending on if it is opened from within a browser or an office js…
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Outlook 365 add-in only appears in Outlook 2013 client

I have a problem to show my add-in in Outlook 2016. I developed it as a Office365 Add-in and it works like a charm in Outlook 2013. But at the time I wanted to test it in Outlook 2016 it does not show up in the 'Apps for Office' section. I think I…
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Events by Management Activity API doesn't have ClientIp Property

We are polling Management Activity API for events in SharePoint, and Azure AD. But we observed that the ClientIp property is not available in event data for many events in SharePoint. Also this property is missing for all events in Azure Active…
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Performance will be better using CSOM or REST API to retrieve data from 4 lists simultaneously.?

I am developing Sharepoint hosted app, and there is a situation where i need to get the data from 4 lists simultaneously, then use it later on. I am able to do it using CSOM. But performance wise what will be better CSOM or REST API. If rest API is…
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"Sideload" an App for Office programatically on the Desktop

I'm not sure whether "sideloading" is the correct term: Is therea an API to programatically install an Office Javascript API based add-in (e.g. a Task Pane app) in to the current / specific document on the desktop (at least on Windows)?…
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Is it possible to edit an Office document stored in the cloud using the Office 365 API?

Is it possible to integrate our asp.net (vb.net) web site with Office 365 so our customers with Office 365 subscriptions can edit documents stored on our servers with the online office 365 editors? Our site already does this with Google Docs editor…
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Office 365 API or Azure AD Graph API - Get Someone Elses Calendar

I am trying to get an office 365 calendar, not for "me", but of a contact. i.e. in the company I work for (which has a global address list), I want to access Dave's calendar, as I would in outlook. I have been through the documentation here,…
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how can we read mail body in compose mode using office 365 java-script API

How can we read mail at compose mode using office 365 JavaScript API? Such as: Office.initialize = function (reason) { var body = Office.context.mailbox.item.body; };
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How to add an existing directory as a new AD in Azure

I have an office 365 account who's directory I want to attach as a new Tennant (probably wrong terminology there) in my Azure account. I'm trying to use the new Office 365 API preview against my existing Office 365 account. So I'm trying to link…
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Why does my Mail App for Office show in Outlook online but not in my installed Outlook Client?

I have developed a mail app for office. It is showing in my Office 365 Outlook in my browser but not in my installed client. But in my installed client it looks like this. Ie the app is not showing: I have looked at managing apps etc but can't…
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Connect a SharePoint workflow to a host list using visual studio for office 365

I am using office 365 Using Visual studio 2012 can i create a workflow project that connects to the host list in the host web and not the list in the app web. Can I achieve this without using remote event receivers and windows azure services. Is…
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Sharepoint hosted App and Lync integration - Lync API 2013

I have a SharePoint hosted app and need to integrate Lync features into it. I am assuming that Lync client is not installed on target machine. Lync features should work for both On-Premise as well as Lync online. I have seen UCWA 4.0 but that does…