Outlook Ribbon VSTO: I cannot add a ribbon button in the Attachments tab

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Pablo Glomby 186

Hello

I need to add a single button in the Attachments tab.

In OutlookMailReadControls.xls I see there is a TabAttachments id. So I added it in the officeId field : User's image

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But in the Attachmens menu I don't see anything:

User's image

If I change the id to TabReadMessage then it works but I really need it to be added to the Attachments tab.

I guess there is something bad with the id. Do you have the correct ID

Thanks

Krystian Szczurek 0 Reputation points

2024-05-28T14:56:00.81+00:00

Don't know if you still need this, but I had the same problem, only that I defined my buttons through an XML file. I came across the SO-answer below, which helped me learn, that there seems to be two different ribbon sections (or tabs): tab and contextualTabs. The Attachment tab is a contextualTab. I can't tell you how you can distinguish that within the properties window, but maybe it helps. See here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15205237/vsto-outlook-get-selected-attachment

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Krystian Szczurek 0 Reputation points

2024-05-28T14:56:00.81+00:00

Don't know if you still need this, but I had the same problem, only that I defined my buttons through an XML file. I came across the SO-answer below, which helped me learn, that there seems to be two different ribbon sections (or tabs): tab and contextualTabs. The Attachment tab is a contextualTab. I can't tell you how you can distinguish that within the properties window, but maybe it helps. See here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15205237/vsto-outlook-get-selected-attachment