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Paolo Raez
Paolo Raez

Reputation: 1753

In an Outlook addin, how do I get/construct the URL to directly open an email in a browser?

Is there any way to get a valid URL to directly navigate to an email? I'm using Office.js v1.1

Right now, I'm creating it manually: 

const defaultOutlookDomain = 'https://outlook.office.com/';
const domain = document.referrer || defaultOutlookDomain;
const emailURL = itemID => new URL('/owa/#ItemID=' + encodeURIComponent(itemID), domain);                                                                                                         

//Usage
const url = emailURL(Office.context.mailbox.item.itemId);

Definitely this is not a perfect solution, but it's working fine for me on desktop/web platforms. The point is that on mobile platforms (Android/iOS) the itemId is sightly different, and the URL I construct is not valid.

On desktop, the itemId is composed using base64 (alphanumeric, '+', '/') while mobile one contains '-' and '_' instead of '/' and '+'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1041

Answers (1)

user7823505
user7823505

Reputation:

Currently, constructing a URL from the itemId, you requested, is not a part of the product. We track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. Please add your request there. Feature requests on user-voice are considered when we go through our planning process.

[Outlook Add-ins Engineering Team]

Upvotes: 1

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