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From YouTube: Office Add-ins community call-August 2020

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August’s call, hosted by Alex Jerabek, featured the following presenters and topics:

Juan Balmori Labra showcased the Outlook JavaScript APIs coming to the next version of office.js.
Matt Geimer demoed the new single sign-on support in Office Add-ins.
Chris Mentor shared Jedox’s add-in solutions and talked with their team about the experience of building on the platform.

Resources:
WebView Switcher tool https://aka.ms/AA8xhut
Office Scripts https://aka.ms/office-scripts
Take the survey https://aka.ms/oadevsurvey

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A

Welcome to the microsoft office, add-ins community call for august 12th. uh This is where we talk about everything in the office platform related to extensibility, whether that's office, add-ins office, scripts or just anything else that makes office work for you just a quick bit of housekeeping. Please make sure your microphones are muted unless you're presenting. If you want to ask a question or have any comments, please use the chat, we'll answer them as we go through and have a q a at the end.

A

Members of the office headings product team are on the call as well and have answer all of your questions. As we go, my name is alex robick I'll, be the host for today's call. We also have juan with us who's going to talk today about the new outlook, 1.9 apis, to show off, what's about to be released into general availability on the outlook side of things for your add-ins.

A

We also have matt here to talk about the release of single sign-in. Sso has been a highly awaited feature, so we're excited to present that to y'all. And finally, we have chris uh one of our friends at jdox here who is going to demonstrate their add-in they've released.

A

They built on top of the office platform and they're going to share their solution and their you know, challenges their their growth, their their opportunities, everything that went along with developing their ad in with y'all uh and then, like, I said, a little q and a at the end uh without further ado. Let's kick it off with juan to talk about the outlook, 1.9 apis, so juan, are you there.

B

C

Thank you very much alex hello, everybody. uh It's good to be here with you today uh this morning here in redmond, to talk a little bit about outlook apis. uh So let's go through it. So, uh basically the team. What the team is working on right now is that we are closing.

C

You know the scope of our 1.9 release, so the new apis that we are going to ship for the new javascript apis, we're going to ship to outlook- and we have um the table that you see here- includes currently the scope that we are thinking. We are going to release so it includes you know many functionalities that you've been asking for. I think the main kind of the main uh feature that it's gonna get released. It's a penton sent depend on some functionality that we actually reviewed in detail.

C

I think two community calls ago. I strongly suggest you to go back to to that one and see you know what we shared there, but we are also including other apis. um I guess uh more like uh that. We have been getting requests in our user voice channel quite a bit. For example, we are we're, including some the dialog api, we're going to provide this api as part of 1.9 uh we're going to have uh what we call display item, async, flavors and finally, we're going to have also custom properties.

C

Improvements uh on this call we're going to talk today about the display item, async flavors. So basically we have, if you have, if you've been calling without look. You know that you know there's a bunch of apis that we shipped long time ago that are about displaying items. So, for example, if you want to show an existing appointment or an existing message, you want to pop that message to the user on its own window.

C

You basically use these apis to either show an existing appointment or an email, or you can also trigger the creation of a new appointment or a new message right or you can trigger also reply or reply all methods. So uh we received the feedback. So we go. Let's go to the next slide and see why why this apis are needed.

C

I want to focus this presentation today on these methods, so, first of all they workship long time ago, and in fact uh these apis uh they have a problem, but actually they are, they have advantages and disadvantages.

C

One of the advantages is that they are very simple to use, so there is a in an asynchronous model. This is one of the few synchronous apis and basically it's very simple to use. You just write display you. If you want to display a message, takes the id of that message and then you can basically just show it. You know. Obviously this works great.

C

If the item already exists in outlook uh and basically when we designed this api long time ago, we were assuming that you were going to be showing existing appointments or emails right, obviously, with that with the graph and all the services layers that we have today, where you can actually create, uh not only you can actually create not only uh using the javascript api, you have, you have rest apis and you have the graph api and you can create appointments and calendar right appointments and emails using the rest apis.

C

Okay, so basically there's a the problem that we have today is that there's kind of a lagging time if you create an appointment using the services that you, you might not have the item created in outlook yet also it takes. Sometimes it takes you like a few seconds or sometimes even more than that. Usually it's very fast.

C

No, but sometimes it takes some time and basically, if you have a synchronous method and the if the item doesn't exist already in your outlook, then this api is going to fail and you don't you don't have a way of knowing that it failed. So that is basically the problem that we have today. So we are adding for all these methods a way to check. You know if the item actually was created, if you, if you can, if you can see if the if the call was successful.

C

So let me give you a quick demo about this. Let me share my screen and show you how this works really quickly. So what I have here is uh script lab. So, as you know, we we recently announced uh that it's it's live, so you can now use scribbler in outlook. I will share in the meeting notes. You know a link to this snippet so that you can play with it as well. So this is. This is basically a a very simple snippet that is showing uh all everything that I just mentioned.

C

So, for example, uh here I have, as you can see in the task pane, uh I have a way of creating. You know uh an appointment using the rest api or a draft email messages using the rest api, and then I have a way of showing opening an appointment using the old apis and then using using the open the same appointment using the new apis.

C

So let's have a: let's have a look at the code here. So, uh as I was telling you the apis that we shipped a long time ago, you see, if you see, line number 17 here, you will see we have displayed appointment and it's basically.

C

uh What I'm doing is that I'm just taking an id as a parameter, and then I just opened that one right, but you don't have a way of checking if it was successful or not, so it was kind of unreliable. You know, as you can see the difference here in the new method. uh We actually have an async flavor. That's why why the you know the async prefix is here.

C

Suffix is here um it takes the id of the appointment that you want to create and then basically you get a call back and within the callback you can actually check. You know if the item exists or not all right, then uh I have another two methods here to create appointments. I was trying to simulate what is the problem here, although I wasn't able to do that right now. The graph is very fast, so I cannot.

C

I cannot replicate it, uh but you know in some conditions and if you're using ews as well, it's sometimes you get this this behavior. What I'm doing here is I'm just calling the rest api and creating a new appointment, and then I am. I am basically uh opening that item. Using using the the methods- oh so, let's, let's see how it works here, so I will first of all I'm going to create a draft.

C

So when I click on create draft, you will see that effectively the well you can see it was very fast right now, so uh we went, uh it went to the graph create a new draft.

C

I have the id here and, as you can see the drafts- and if I open my drafts folder, uh you will see that effectively. There's a draft created here, so this.

D

C

Was very fast, you know it's just it's very creative. I was not able to replicate this, uh but some customers have reported that this frequently happens. So I don't have the problem right now, but I want to show you what happens if I delete it. If I now, I'm going to create a new appointment so uh by creating the rest apis and as you can see here, uh this is the appointment that I created, uh and basically uh here is the id of that appointment uh and I'm reporting the id here in the console right.

C

So if I copy this and all this this id- and I put it here- you can see that if I I can call this create appointment, I can call the api the new, using the new method and I can call it using the old method as well. You know it's gonna work now what happens if I delete this appointment.

C

uh If I delete the appointment check this out, let's go to the calendar, so I'm going to open this in a new window. This is the appointment that was created, I'm just going to delete it, so it no longer exists.

C

So if I cr, if I try to open that appointment using the id that was provided originally using the alt method, I'm just going to basically just going to be making the call- and I don't have a way of knowing. If what happened you know, I don't know if this was successful or not as a developer. So this is basically the complaint that we were listening.

C

However, if I create, if I use the new method, on the other hand, I'm going to be able to say hey, I'm going to get this exception, I'm going to I'm going to check. You know the call failed. You know the the item does not exist and has not been created. So this is a very uh it's a more reliable api in the sense that you you can get.

C

You know uh um a detailed response on why you know if that, if the item was was displayed or not uh all right, so we implemented this uh flavor of asynchronous to all the displays or again we have like six methods that are uh displaying items in outlook and in 1.9.

C

They're gonna have an async flavor so that you can actually check if the items were created or not, and that's what I have for you guys today uh by the way uh everything that I was saying right now, it's in preview, so you can go and try use this apis. Give us feedback again. We are in the latest stages of you, know, shipping, all these new functionalities for you, and it will be wonderful if we can get. You know your your feedback on it.

C

Thank you very much alex that's it from my side.

A

All right, thank you, juan I'll. Ask the the preemptive question that I know will come up in the chat is: when do we expect to release all these.

C

uh Where uh it's going to be uh very soon uh again we're closing the scope uh of this. We are polishing everything the last details, making sure that it works in the platforms that we are targeting by the way. This is only gonna work for for now in windows and ola and web later, it's going to work in mac and the other platforms, uh but you know I I I don't want to say a specific date, but but I think uh it's going to be very soon, so I hope that's what you know.

A

It's good awesome, yeah and uh just a reminder. You can try out all these apis in script lab now. We now support outlook in script lab. So if you want to develop a little prototype, add-ins in outlook itself check out scriptlab, we'll paste the link in the chat, but for now turn things over to matt.

B

Thanks alex so hey uh happy to be here, happy to announce that we have released single sign-on for office add-ins, they have gone ga, so it's really exciting and I'm really happy to share a little bit about what what the single sign-on feature does and how we can how we can use it just a little overview. uh It is generally available and it's available in the uh july fork. So that's gonna be rolling out over the next few weeks.

B

I believe uh to the current channel and- and you know, keep an eye on that, but I believe it's version 2008 the identity, api uh requirements set does list the build uh and if it doesn't we'll make sure we update that specific build. But I know it's version 2008. um You know single sign-on. I love the chat by the way. This is great. uh The single sign-on lets you, uh you know, reduce the number of times the user has to log in to to your service.

B

If they're already logged into office and you're using azure active directory- and it really provides a smoother user experience- and you can also- you know- really easily get profile information or you can get microsoft graph data depending on what your service needs to do. A really nice thing, too, is that it supports both work and school accounts, as well as microsoft accounts. So it's not just for organizations, it's not just for consumers. You can use it, no matter who you're targeting.

B

I just want to talk a little bit about how how the flow works- and you may have seen this before and we'll just kind of go through it real quickly, but you have an add-in on the client side and that go goes ahead and creates a request to uh get access token. So this is the call that's saying hey. I want to know who this user is that goes ahead and calls out to azure ad, so the office host is calling out to azure id to get a token for the add-in server.

B

So this is your server and what happens is it returns? We go ahead. You know and move move forward that to back to the client side, that's the step. Three get back uh token to your admin, server to the office host that comes back to the client. So then you can go ahead and use that now you have the user's identity. uh They've consented already at this point or an admins consented so that that's taken care of and the client side can pass it back to the server for validation.

B

uh You know you can use that information to store information on your server side or you can continue on and do steps six through eight here which show how to get to graph data. So you can exchange that token, using the on behalf of flow uh to get a graph token and make calls to the graph. So you can go ahead and it just bit. You know you literally just make another call on your server side. uh Six, seven and eight just show yeah. You know you can go ahead.

B

Exchange that token and then you get access to the graph and you can make craft calls. So that's the flow! It's it's very uh straightforward, as we can see here with the lines, it's actually pretty straightforward to implement I'll show you a little demo here.

B

I have two demos for you. So first, let's take a look at a very simple uh single sign-on demo here, so I have just used the yo office uh tooling to create a very uh excel task. Pane add-in and I added a few lines of code. Specifically, I added this get access. Token there's a couple options I passed here, I'll, allow sign in and allow consent, and so allow consent.

B

uh Prompt is a big one. Actually, that's uh something we added where the user can consent to share the profile information if they, uh if they they haven't yet. So that's that's something! That's really important that we've added that's for the identity piece, uh the profile piece, only if you're looking to do graph scopes, uh we'll talk about that in a minute.

B

I parsed that token- and I just you know, went ahead and grabbed some some range data and threw it into a into a range. So let's take a look at how this works. I need to make sure I'm running the right. One. They're very closely named, unfortunately, uh looks like that is running, so, let's launch excel.

B

This is an excel one. uh We can see that I have a few different accounts signed in here, so I'll show you kind of some different experiences, so this is just the the simple again. I I just modified the sample app. I click run. Oh I got I have to select my range. I didn't care should scold me for this. We can see here that it went ahead and it grabbed just by clicking that run that one call to get get token uh get access token. You can also see when I set up my tenant.

B

I misspelled my own name, which is hilarious, but what we can see here this I'm parsing that token I'm getting the the from I'm just showing you the the scope uh scopes. I've got here, the audience, that's my my app id, which I can see matches my app id in azure, uh which right here we're not gonna. You know copy it and take a look, but it is the same app.

B

So we see I'm getting a scope for my service or audience for my service, which is great and if I switch users, let's see if we can get another one here.

B

We can see just like that. It's getting the the correct person super easy uh that was again that one line of code is is calling and getting that token I didn't have to do anything but parse it. So all that's handled, I will call out. I did not put in a fallback method here, so you should. You should definitely do that. We'll see what that looks like here in the next demo, which the next demo is using, the uh the actual tooling again, that does the uh sorry, the sso, quick start that we have.

B

So we have a really cool sso, quick start. It goes ahead and creates a really nice project for you and it can even register the the azure active directory app registration. So you can go through all the pieces for that and you can. This is that that that project right here I did not change this at all. I just wanted to show you uh this.

B

This took me maybe like 20 minutes, to put everything together, and most of that was, you know, waiting for the azure command line to download and go through, but it goes ahead. It has some really nice uh helper libraries in there to go ahead and do the fallback off to handle all the things that you should be doing so, if you're just getting started, this is a great place that you can go and see how that works.

B

So, let's go ahead and see who I'm logged in, as so I'm logged in right. Now, as my misspelled user, I can go ahead and try and do this now. What's going to happen, is this: this should fail, that's expected. So this is the fallback dialogue. So this is, if sso, for whatever reason, didn't work and there's a couple scenarios where this could be either they're in a the user's in an older version that doesn't support sso or there's. uh You know some uh error that wasn't handled now.

B

In this case again, we have a a few of them in the the tooling, the the quick start that are automatically handled, but there are some some cases like multi-factor, auth and conditional access that you need to be careful about, and we do have some documentation on that on how to handle that. So this is an expected behavior. You want to make sure that you do have this fallback method to let the user go ahead and then sign in the first time which they have to do to go through the the consent process.

B

But what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to my portal here, and this is the other app that we're looking at right now that word app and we can see here, uh I I can actually go ahead and uh grant admin consent for my entire tenant, and so I've done that and now what assuming that this propagates quick enough, we'll see, um let's see if this works boom, so there you go and I'm a super cool demo person. I totally didn't put that in for this demo.

B

Oh, I did actually, but this is showing off, like your office information, your phone number. You know this is again just just some basic profile info, but you can. This is getting it from from graph, so this is going through that whole flow of the getting the profile token swapping it for a graph token talking to graph, and we also have a different, uh a different.

B

uh I'm sorry addition to the quick start that tells you how to modify it to go and get other graph data and and using that as a great learning tool, so uh really cool stuff. I think uh that covers most of it. I know I missed one thing: actually, let's go back to that other demo. Let's see if I can get the consent experience real quick just so you can see what it looks like. So in the case of the the previous well, we just saw that with admin consent.

B

That is what you have to do for a graph graph scopes. If you have graph scopes just for certain issues that we're still working out and trying to move through with with some of the consent parts, uh the the admin uh consent is the only way that you can avoid a fallback, but with the if you're, just using profile, you can still do consent right here in clients. Let's see, I think this one should work to ask for consent.

B

You start getting. uh I was gonna. Do that? Okay? Actually let me do this. Is it not running? I might not be running.

B

Oh that's. Why.

B

Oh, no, that should be good. Let's try it again.

B

B

Well, you know what I'm not going to show you the consent experience this time, but I'll go make sure that if anyone wants to see it, we can go through that next time, uh where we'll put something up, uh you know, after on the docs, just showing what that looks like, but uh that's pretty much the as easy as it is you you really don't have to do much that one line that get get access token.

B

It really is that simple just get the profile information you do have to do your app registration, the the full details are on the uh on the documentation and which we do have links to in this deck and we'll make sure we share out they're, also in our announcement on the office, dev blog post, so just a couple of best practices make sure to implement that fallback method. If you don't yeah, you won't, let users be able to sign in, and that's that's not a great experience.

B

uh There are client ids you have to pre-authorize so that the office host can do the the call on the on on the behalf of the user and talk to your service. So you have to you, do have to pre-authorize that, and the list again is in our documentation. There are some new formatting requirements for the manifest that we're we're finishing, updated documentation this week, but it does follow the best practices that are already there in the current docs, we'll just be calling out that they are now required and then there's some things.

B

You should make sure you check out in the auth options explicitly around for graph access or the allow consent prompt so for graph access.

B

We'll make sure that if you do use graph scopes- and you do get graph data that you uh you will be able to fail fast if they didn't have admin consent granted already so we'll just skip even trying to get a token that won't work and we'll go ahead and say: hey, like you know, let's launch that fallback method the first time and then after that consent will have been granted and it should just work uh and then for the other piece like I said, the consent prompt.

B

If you only require profile information, make sure that you include that, so you can get the most. uh The most value out of sso, so that's that's what I had. I will answer questions in the chat here after uh you know, after I'm done talking, which is right now, if you have anything else, though, make sure to check out our documentation, like, I said, a blog post and we'll be continuing to do some some additional work on this and and improve the experience as we move forward thanks so much.

A

All right, thank you, so much matt and yeah feel free to ask questions. Chat, matt will be hanging out throughout this and we can kind of revisit some of the ones we want to talk more about during the q a section, uh but for now, let's switch over to uh chris mentor is going to talk about uh jadox's add-in their their solution. So chris are you there? Yes,.

D

I am yeah hello, everyone, chris mentor, I'm the director of product management at jedox today is a little bit of a discussion about a real life. Implementation of office. Js and custom functions we're a a technology company that does corporate performance, cpm performance management. So we do planning forecasting, budgeting, reporting and analysis for companies and basically so what we've developed is we've for a long time since 2002 we've had an excel add-in for our product um and we've recently developed a jedox online add-in.

D

So this essentially allows our customers to use it for planning, reporting and analysis. It's a full read-write capability and they can save numbers and strings directly into excel online, which writes back the data directly to our in-memory database, which sits behind it.

D

The add-in is available uh for anyone, but you need a jet ops instance to actually run it. You can download it from the from the appsource marketplace and add that to your instance of excel online and the first screen you get when you get. It is a is a screen which basically tells you uh either add a connection, or you can just get a trial version on the fly of jet ox and connect to that to actually start looking at your data via excel online.

D

So what I'm going to do now is swap over live to to a demo. So when, when I come to manage my connections, um I can click on. This is my jedox toolbar here in my ribbon. um At the moment, we've only got a couple of items over time. This will be built out to include a fully featured ribbon that we have for uh excel at the moment, desktop excel and at the moment, we're building this up and we've got the ability to manage connections.

D

So we can come in here and we can see our connection here and we've got the ability to add a name and address username and password to authenticate against the jet ops connection.

D

We can test that connection to make sure that it's working properly so once all that is set up, what we can then do is then use it. So, for example, I've got a report set up here which is connecting live back to jedox.

D

It just recalculates my report and brings back the latest information through to through to excel online.

D

Another example here of another type of user. So if I want to say a business analyst view here, they've got a report that they need to key numbers in. They could select various filters or groups. I've got a budget number. I want to increase that to a thousand they just type that number directly in and that sends the number directly into the jedox database, and we can see here. We've got these parlo data c formulas. They are a jedox formulas using custom functions that are connecting back to this.

D

This connection that I've set up here in excel online. So it's reading that in real time when I recalculate the sheet it's connecting back to the to the jedox cloud instance.

D

You've also got the ability to write back strings, so I can type text in here and this sends that string back directly to the server then returns the formula again with the and reading the value directly from the server there.

D

So this this is a bit of an example of how how these, how these formulas work and how we're using custom formulas to actually uh return data from a jedox olap server.

D

In memory olap server in the cloud to excel online next thing I wanted to show you was taking a report here in excel, so this is we're now in desktop excel, and this is an example of a fully fledged jedox ribbon here in desktop excel most of our customers use and again the ability to change to various regions to see to see the data changing. I can key in another number here and that's gone straight into the system, but what I can do now, of course, is.

D

I can just open up that report that I've got from that's actually here in desktop excel. I can open up that report online, so um same report, I've saved into one drive and then I can open this up directly here into one into excel, excel online here and displaying my information.

D

So it's two-way. It works both in desktop excel. It works in the web client and it also works on a mac desktop as well. The new the new genocks ribbon for excel online okay and that sort of finishes. Our demonstration of our implementation here of off australia's custom functions.

D

If anyone's got any questions feel free to type them away in the chat.

A

Awesome, thank you chris. uh That's some really cool stuff. I can ask, since this is a very like developer, focused audience um yeah. What were some of what was your experience? Building on the office platform and using the custom functions.

D

uh Dominic danielle and vladislav and malaysia, which are on the call, might get them to maybe unmute and answer our developers here.

A

All right, sorry to put them on the spot.

E

Yeah no worries so vlado here, hi everyone- I don't know if you can see me um yeah, so we, for example, it's custom function, so we are using custom function, talking back to our to our cloud backend. So that's what's happening in the back. I don't know the the experience we've been, we've been talking to peer carer and the whole team for uh quite a long time following the development of this before it was ga um watching uh closely what's happening, and obviously we have a huge investment.

E

You know uh with a huge investment in in this uh we've. Been we've been working on this since 2002 and we're now. You know this is the the next next next step um to to to convert this to custom function, functions which obviously has a has a huge potential for our uh customers, because it has a much much bigger reach.

E

You know, being able to finally being able to to develop once and have experience both in excel online uh mac, uh desktop and and and obviously, windows yeah in a single single uh with a single uh code base yeah. So that's it's really awesome and and team was very helpful. Helpful k over and.

E

Some meetings in our office last year and it was really really cool. That's.

A

Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that um yeah, cool and uh yeah. Everyone will be around in the chat if you have questions about yeah, like development or or uh the jdx ad in general, uh feel free to ask them so I'll switch over back to the slides um and yeah like, like, I said, we'll do the q a part. Now um there is one question that came in repeatedly online, I think, was in the chat earlier. It was about using the new edge webview too. So I'll just leave these instructions up here.

A

For now this is the new webview controller. That's you know using the latest version of chromium and all that. Well, I also saw a question in the chat earlier that you know. Will this be connected to the like visual studio code, extensions and debugger extensions and uh yeah? That's there is an option there uh for an edge, webview debugger as well um so and yeah, I think that's uh cara. Did you want to say anything else to um webview2 while you're? I know you're answering some questions earlier.

F

um I I think uh uh the team will have a blog post, uh cd or uh runtime pm will be outlining a blog post. uh As uh the sled says hey. It is now available on insiders. I think really for us to hit our goal of bringing this to become generally available in the fall. We really need your help here. uh This is a huge uh change and a change.

F

We think for the better um so uh like on this front, hey the more help we can have in terms of testing on the insider's channel, which they also.

F

I think there was a recent name change, so you may, it may be called uh office beta as well, uh but the more help you can do, uh the better uh we will be- and I think, um a couple months ago we even announced uh the shared runtime um starting with excel and we'll bring the shared runtime to the other host as well and uh right now the shared runtime uh is still using ie, but our hope is hey.

F

Once the uh new edge webview to control uh does ga shared runtime will move to that as well, and so we think hey. This is going to be a huge leap forward in terms of your developer experience, as well as just providing better capabilities for end users.

A

Thanks alex, oh no, thank you uh cool uh matt. Were there any other sso questions I saw you were pretty active in the chat a little bit ago. Any other sso questions you want to bring up for the group.

B

Yeah sure I mean the the there were some great questions um you know asking if it was sample 2. No, it's not sample 2. There was a question about you know: is this just for azure id services or does it work for other? um You know identity providers and it is just azure id services right now. uh You know that folks are looking to do things with other providers.

B

You know we do still recommend that you do the dialogue api, which is how you should also most likely also implement your fallback using something like msl, a couple implementation questions. You know other implementation questions, but I don't think there was anything else that I saw uh no looks pretty good.

A

Awesome, thank you matt and yeah. um As to the the powerpoint questions that are out there, we, we are actively looking at expanding powerpoint apis right now beyond the common api service that works for any add-in and the like, as matt mentioned, the one create presentation function. um We are looking into that. We don't have a timeline right now, but um like as karen mentioned user voice is how we prioritize api requests.

A

So if there's a particular function, particularly like, if you were using it in an existing com, add-in, let us know- and you know, go upvote that request. We can prioritize our releases of apis based on that. So, yes, let us know, but we are working on powerpoint. We are investigating new apis and figuring out how to best deliver a set that will help the most people so yeah.

A

Your input in that is invaluable, and we will announce on this call when we have stuff for people to preview to try out in script lab and such so yeah. Thank you one other thing I wanted to mention aside from engaging with us. If you are interested in presenting during an upcoming call- or you know, giving us feedback of any kind or questions um you know go to ms office add-ins engage um we'll also share the link to uh submit questions for the q a ahead of time, a lot of questions that were required.

A

A lot of detailed answer and kind of civic, so we'll post them in the blog post coming up uh melody will share the link to that or where you can find the blog post coming up. We also uh sylvia our developer experience pm put together. Another survey around developer satisfaction, so we really want to hear about your experiences building office add-ins from start to finish. uh So, if you could head over to ms office, dev satisfaction fill out the quick form there and let us know kind of what your experiences were with the platform.

A

All right uh were there any other questions, anything else. uh Wanna care matt. You wanna share before we head off.

B

No I'm good thanks so much for uh for having me on this call alex. It was great super happy to be here and share the info. Of course. Thank you.

C

All right, please, no, on my side alex. Thank you very much. It was a great thoughts to be here and share the latest on outlook here.

A

Awesome, thank you yeah. Thank you for joining, and thanks again to to chris and vlad for sharing their their jedox solution. Talking about that.

E

Yeah. Thank you also thanks for having us.

A

Oh, thank you yeah, so for those of you on the call who are new to office add-ins, who this maybe is your first exposure. If you're interested in starting to extend the office platform, we have some quick starts. That'll, get you up and running with a working add-in in five minutes or less head over to ecms office add-in stocks, you can start playing around for quick starts. We also have tutorials there, including the sso quick start, so you can start trying out that feature.

A

If you're looking for a lighter automation solution, uh you don't need a full-fledged. You know web service, add-in you're, just looking to automate some tasks in excel. I recommend checking out office scripts. The feature is in preview right now. You can learn all about that at ms office scripts docs. We also have numerous resources for y'all. If you are interested in getting an office development tenant and starting to try out these scenarios without having an enterprise.

A

Ten of your own uh head over to the microsoft 365 developer program, uh there you can get a tenant and get more resources to help start. Your development process also feel free to engage with us on stack overflow on github user voice like we mentioned, we're monitoring all these channels, and we want to hear your experiences and help you out. Finally, there are other developer community calls out there in the microsoft 365 ecosystem.

A

This is just a quick list, but yeah if you're interested in developing for teams or sharepoint check out those calls they're, either monthly or bi-monthly, so yeah check them out today. So thank you. All this recording will be available on our m365 developer. Youtube channel, uh we'll go up sometime soonish, along with a blog post, that'll, have the questions and answers from the chat and any questions that we didn't get to during. This call we'll have answers on the blog post.

A

So thank you very much, we'll see you all on september, 9th for the next community call have a great day. Thank.

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