Excel.CommentRichContent interface

Package:

excel

Represents the content contained within a comment or comment reply. Rich content incudes the text string and any other objects contained within the comment body, such as mentions.

Remarks

[ API set: ExcelApi 1.11 ]

Properties

mentions	An array containing all the entities (e.g., people) mentioned within the comment.
richContent	Specifies the rich content of the comment (e.g., comment content with mentions, the first mentioned entity has an ID attribute of 0, and the second mentioned entity has an ID attribute of 1).

Property Details

mentions

An array containing all the entities (e.g., people) mentioned within the comment.

mentions?: Excel.CommentMention[];

Property Value

Excel.CommentMention[]

Remarks

[ API set: ExcelApi 1.11 ]

Examples

// Link to full sample: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/excel/12-comment/comment-mentions.yaml

await Excel.run(async (context) => {
    const sheet = context.workbook.worksheets.getItem("Comments");
    const mention = {
        email: "kakri@contoso.com",
        id: 0,
        name: "Kate Kristensen"
    };

    // This will tag the mention's name using the '@' syntax.
    // They will be notified via email.
    const commentBody = {
        mentions: [mention],
        richContent: '<at id="0">' + mention.name + "</at> -  Can you take a look?"
    };

    // Note that an InvalidArgument error will be thrown if multiple cells passed to `comment.add`.
    sheet.comments.add("A1", commentBody, Excel.ContentType.mention);
    await context.sync();
});

richContent

Specifies the rich content of the comment (e.g., comment content with mentions, the first mentioned entity has an ID attribute of 0, and the second mentioned entity has an ID attribute of 1).

richContent: string;

Property Value

string

Remarks

[ API set: ExcelApi 1.11 ]