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Mawg
Mawg

Reputation: 40140

Outlook web add-in : displayDialogAsync() not working

I can't post a working demo, because the code needs to run in MS Outlook.

I am developing based on this Outlook Add-in Command Demo.

I want to add a dialog box, as shown here in the MS docs.

I took that working demo and added one single line:

Office.context.ui.displayDialogAsync('https://my_site.com/project/hello_world.html');

where https://my_site.com/project is where the rest of the app is, and hello_world.html is a bare minimal HTML file with a "Hello World" body.

I added that where I saw Office.context being used - in the function insertText() - to be sure that it had ben created.

That function is caled when a button on a task pane is clicked when composing an email.

I do not see the "Hello World" dialog, nor anything in the console log.

Is displayDialogAsync() not allowed from a task pane?

Any ideas from the info I can give what I might be doing wrongly, or how to detect it? Does the fucntion have a return value, or throw an exception if it fails? Any othe ideas? Is there a minimal demo, maybe just from clicking a button on the ribbon?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1837

Answers (1)

Rick Kirkham
Rick Kirkham

Reputation: 9674

You can call displayDialogAsync from a task pane. To troubleshoot, pass a callback parameter to the method and read the AsyncResult.error property. For details see Office.ui as well as the article that you linked to.

Upvotes: 1

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