Apps for Office allow developers to create apps that integrate with Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, bringing SharePoint content and functionality into the Office experience. Developers can build task pane apps, which appear as panels in Office applications, and content apps, which are embedded directly into documents. These apps provide opportunities to enhance collaboration and workflows by supplementing documents with SharePoint features and third-party services.
3. introduction
introduction to Apps for Office
Apps closer look
Mail App
Task Pane and Content App
SharePoint hosted Office App
Opportunities
4.
5. Devices People Services
1 billion
smartphones by 2016,
82%
of the world's online
50%
of enterprise customers
350M of those being population engages in are “on the road” to
used at work social networking cloud
14. App manifest (.xml)
Developer or .app package
Document
Sharing
Office Store or
App Catalog
Web Page Consumers &
Corporate Users
Web Server
(Internet or Intranet)
15. “Bring your own server Host your code in SharePoint
hosting infrastructure” Client side technologies and
declarative workflows
Any Web Server SharePoint SharePoint
(Online or On-premises) (Online or On-premises) (Online)
Windows Azure
16. Other Devices
& Clients
Client APIs Browser Host
Office
Client
APP
SharePoint
& Exchange
Server
Server APIs Web Server Host
3rd Party Services
17. Other Devices
& Clients
Client APIs Browser Host
Office
Client
APP
SharePoint
& Exchange
Server
Server APIs Web Server Host
3rd Party Services
18. Office.context
Document Mailbox Project
R/W Selection Item Project Info
Bindings User Profile Tasks
Settings EWS
CustomXmlParts Properties &
Settings
19. Functional area Word Excel/Excel WAC PowerPoint Outlook/OWA Project
Get/Set data as text,
table, matrix
Settings
Get File
Bindings
Custom XML Parts
Html and OOXML
Mailbox
20. Available In: Outlook, OWA,
MOWA
Mail App
Interaction:
• Expand/Collapse
Developer sets the height
Min: 32, Max 450 px
Width: variable
Form Factor: Desktop, Tablet,
Mobile
*Cannot set height for Mobile
Availability Subtle User Experience Supplemental Information
Mail apps are available in Outlook, Mail apps are designed to remain Contextual apps provide additional
Outlook Web App and Mobile Outlook unobtrusively in the background, yet information based on rules applied to a
Web App. easily activated when needed. messaging item.
21. Layout Guidance Support for Other Form Factors Scrollbar Guidance
Mail apps have a height between 32 and 450 pixels. Outlook Web App has support for form-factor Scrollbars should be avoided within a mail app.
There is no control over width – design your app to specific functionality. This provides you with an You can explicitly hide them as follows:
automatically adjust to different widths. easy way to deal with the UI constraints of phones <body style=“overflow:hidden”>
or tablets.
22. Appear in messages and
appointments
Contextual to current
item
Cross platform, cross
device
24. Entity Type Text Detected
Address US postal addresses
1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052
EmailAddress Any SMTP address
MeetingSuggestion A reference to an event or meeting
Let’s meet next Tuesday for lunch.
Contact A personal name related to other entities
Randy Byrne, 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052
PhoneNumber US telephone numbers
(555) 867-5309
TaskSuggestion Actionable sentences in an email
Please install office 2013 on my computer.
Url A filename or web address
28. Available In: Excel, EWA
Interaction:
• Move
• Print
Content App
• Resize
• Copy/Paste
• Save as image
Developer sets the default
size
Part of the document Implemented as an Excel shape Travels with the document
A content app is embedded within the Print, resize, move, copy/paste, etc. The The app travels with the document for
content of the document. It is part of the user is in complete control. easy, yet secure, distribution. An image is
document. shown if the app is not available.
29. Set an appropriate size
Specify an appropriate size for the app in the Manifest
This example is sized too small – resize to avoid scrollbars
Layout Guidance Context Menus Scrollbar Guidance
Content Agaves have a generous size limit of 2560x2048. Developers have full control of the context menu Scrollbars should be avoided within a content
Users can resize and move so design accordingly. inside an app. However, you can not take over, or app. Size them appropriately within the
Remember – content may print with the document. add to the Shape context menu. manifest.
30. Available In: Word, Excel,
EWA, Project, PowerPoint
Interaction:
• Dock/Un-dock
Task Pane App
• Float
• Resize
• Lock
Standard 350 px default size
Part of the document Familiar User Experience Reference Information
A task pane app is embedded within the Leveraging the task pane infrastructure, Task Pane apps are perfect for providing
content of the document. It is part of the these apps leverage users familiarity with reference information associated with a
document. a popular Office UI paradigm. document.
31. 320 pixels
Layout Guidance Context Menus Scrollbar Guidance
The default width of 350 pixels cannot be changed Developers have full control of the context menu Vertical scrollbars are acceptable, use CSS to
programmatically. Users can resize and move so design to inside an app. However, you can not take over, or modify so they match Office scrollbars.
adjust to different widths. add to the Office Task Pane menu. Horizontal scrollbars should be avoided.
Introduce myselfWes HackettPrincipal Solution Architect at Content and CodeWorking with the company since 2007Working with SharePoint since 2003, MOSS 2007, SP2010 and now SP2013
So where did we start?
Before we talk about The new Office, I’d like to discuss some of the major trends that we have taken into consideration when building this release and get your perspective, in terms of how you see these making an impact in your business. There are multiple factors impacting the way we get things done, the way we interact with colleagues, with clients and business partners. DEVICES : Let’s start with Devices. This is probably the one that is more tangible, as it has an impact in how we get things done in a very personal way. Forrester has forecasted that there will be 1 billion smartphone customers by 2016, 350M of those will be employees using smartphones at work. They have also stated that there will be around 126 million tablets in the US alone. How we use devices is also changing our expectation on how applications are used and consumed. With smartphones we get :real-time access to email and social media notifications, so we are always connected to the things we care about, our people, our projects and our business.PEOPLE: Which brings me to the next topic, which is about People, the way people wants to get things done is also evolving. Multiple generations are at play in the work place.According to the AARP, for the first time in modern history, workplace demographics now span 4 generations. Newer generations (particularly Gen Y) have different expectations of work and life. Three out of ten students globally (29%), feel that once they begin working, it will be their right – more than a privilege – to be able to work remotely with a flexible schedule (Cisco, November 2011). The ability to hire the youngest and brightest, is being impacted by our ability to meet their expectations, and provide the right communication and collaboration tools at work. Another aspect related to people is social networking. There is a lot of skepticism about social networking for business, but it is happening, we have a great example in Yammer, which has 5M users today and adding 250,000 users per month. The challenge with social networking is twofold: first, is about making the most of the giant public networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, for customer interaction; second, is about mimicking the power of those social sites inside our businesses, in order to accelerate collaboration and innovation.Last, not least is the transformational aspect of cloud computing, it changes the way we deliver and consume software and applications. According to a recent research from IDC, spend in cloud services and enablement will hit $60 billion by 2020, and over 50% of customers "on the road" to the cloud.Most businesses today are looking at a hybrid approach to adopting the cloud, with a mix of on-premises solutions and multiple cloud offerings, but it is expected that over the next several years, cloud services will largely replace client/server as the dominant model for application and solution delivery.
Delightful – Making the experience feel the same across devicesSocial – Bringing all the social elements into Office directlyControl – Providing better tools to manage the Office estateExtensible – Common programming modelCloud - Making sure Office is cloud ready
Microsoft’s vision
Users can now get there apps from the Office Marketplace
Currently Apps for Office are available in the following shapesContent App – These are embedded into the main content similar to a chart or image would be.Task Pane App – These appear in the sidebarsMail App – Dedicated experience for email inboxes
Provider hosted – Bring your own servers and manage all the kit your. These are also probably the hardest to get workingSharePoint Hosted – Write only using some CAML and JavaScript client technologies onlyAutohosted App - Windows Azure + SQL Azure provisioned automatically as apps are installed, ONLY for O365
So now there is a common App architecture
For Apps for Office the highlighted elements are the ones mainly used