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javajunkie
javajunkie

Reputation: 117

Launch one addin from another addin in excel

We have developed a couple of excel addins with office-js and are finding that it would be really handy to be able to launch one addin from another addin and even possibly pass some data between the 2. Is the launching at least possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 101

Answers (2)

cs_pupil
cs_pupil

Reputation: 3052

If you own both add-ins, you could navigate to one or the other via the URL's you placed in your manifest file. This could allow you to launch another add-in, however it would be inside the same task pane.

You could also pass data between both apps via url query parameters.

I've done this before when I made an add-in that was a landing page for other add-ins. When you clicked on a button for another tool, it would navigate to another add-in (which was a separate project) and pass the previous tool as a parameter in the URL so you could navigate back to where you came from.

It'd also be possible to share data on a private sheet inside Excel.

Upvotes: 2

Slava Ivanov
Slava Ivanov

Reputation: 6912

This would be security issue when an add-in will be able to manipulate others. For this obvious reason this is not possible.

Usually I advise to use https://officespdev.uservoice.com/ to request unimplemented feature, but based on your description, Office team most likely won't allow it anyway.

Upvotes: -1

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