SPFx Add-In for Word? - Githubissues

jonathanhotono commented 3 years ago

What type of issue is this?

Question

What SharePoint development model, framework, SDK or API is this about?

💥 SharePoint Framework

Target SharePoint environment

SharePoint Online

What browser(s) / client(s) have you tested

[ ] 💥 Internet Explorer
[ ] 💥 Microsoft Edge
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[ ] 💥 FireFox
[ ] 💥 Safari
[ ] mobile (iOS/iPadOS)
[ ] mobile (Android)
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[ ] other (enter in the "Additional environment details" area below)

Additional environment details

SPFx plusbeta

Issue description

Any estimation of when will there be Office Add-In support for Microsoft Word/PowerPoint? Current plusbeta only supports Outlook, I am very keen to test the integration with Word/PP.

This youtube video below demonstrates that we can load the webpart on word and interact, mind sharing the manifest.xml that handles this for Word taskpane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3da-ApeHtV8

Building Office Addin would be much better and easier if can be done through SPFX as I no longer have to setup the SSO and auth just to call into sharepoint API using Node server. I really hope microsoft will have a timeline to extend and release this to GA on upcoming versions.

ghost commented 3 years ago

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VesaJuvonen commented 3 years ago

This is currently not unfortunately moving forward, so there's no clear timeline when Office would support this. We will be removing this feature most likely even from the preview side, until we get commitment from the Office extensibility team internally on investing here. A bit unfortunately.

jonathanhotono commented 3 years ago

@VesaJuvonen this is truly unfortunate as a lot of our clients now had to stick with old deployment to azure/web app method to enable SSO instead of easy sharepoint way. I guess this might be more of an economical decision than technical.

Thanks for the update, much appreaciated.