Office Add-in Developer Community (PnP) – March 2021 update

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The Office Add-ins developer platform team has new updates to share this month on Office Add-ins Patterns and Practices. PnP is a community effort, so if you are interested in contributing, see our good first issue list. 

Use Outlook event-based activation to set the signature (preview) 

 

This sample uses event-based activation to run an Outlook add-in when the user creates a new message or appointment. The add-in can respond to events, even when the task pane is not open. It also uses the setSignatureAsync API. If no signature is set, the add-in prompts the user to set a signature, and can then open the task pane for the user. 

• Check out the code sample: Use Outlook event-based activation to set the signature (preview) 


• Check out the docs: Configure your Outlook add-in for event-based activation (preview) 

Contributors 

Thank you to our contributors who are actively helping each month with the PnP-OfficeAddins community effort.  

• Maarten van Stam – helping review PRs and issues on PnP-OfficeAddins 

Want to contribute? 

PnP is a community effort by developers like you. Check out our good first issue list as a great place to help with some samples. Feel free to contribute to existing samples or create new ones. 

About Office Add-ins Patterns & Practices (PnP) 

Office Add-ins PnP is a Microsoft-led, community driven effort that helps developers extend, build, and provision customizations on the Office platform the right way by providing guidance and help through official documentation and open-source initiatives. The source is maintained in GitHub where anyone can participate. You can provide contributions to the samples, reusable components, and documentation. Office Add-ins PnP is owned and coordinated by Office engineering teams, but the work is done by the community for the community. 

You can find code samples for Office Add-in development in the Office Add-ins PnP repo. Some samples are also documented in the Office Add-ins docs, such as Open in Excel. 

Additional resources  

• Get started with Office development by joining the Microsoft 365 developer program. 


• Try out some samples and get coding quickly with Office add-ins by downloading Script Lab. 

Learn more by joining the monthly Office Add-ins community call. 

Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.