Let the button open a new window

Question

I want to add a button under the tab of my add-in, and clicking on the button should open a URL in a new window or Dialog box. I tried the follows:

<Group id="Contoso.Tab1.Group2">
    <Label resid="Contoso.Tab1.GroupLabel" />
    <Icon>
        <bt:Image size="16" resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Icon" />
        <bt:Image size="32" resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Icon" />
        <bt:Image size="80" resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Icon" />
    </Icon>
    <Control xsi:type="Button" id="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3">
        <Label resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Label" />
        <Supertip>
            <Title resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Label" />
            <Description resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Tooltip" />
        </Supertip>
        <Icon>
            <bt:Image size="16" resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Icon" />
            <bt:Image size="32" resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Icon" />
            <bt:Image size="80" resid="Contoso.TaskpaneButton3.Icon" />
        </Icon>
        <Action xsi:type="ShowTaskpane">
            <TaskpaneId>Button3</TaskpaneId>
            <SourceLocation resid="Contoso.Taskpane3.Url" />
        </Action>
    </Control>
</Group>

... ...

   <bt:Url id="Contoso.Taskpane3.Url" DefaultValue="https://www.stackoverflow.com/" />

The problem is that it still tries to open that link in a task pane, rather than a new window or Dialog box. Does anyone know how to amend the manifest to achieve this?

Korten

you can google it using the words "action button to open url in dialog ms office add-in" – Unwind

Answer 1

after googling about office dev , I found that you can change the action tag to something like

<!-- This is what happens when the command is triggered (E.g. click on the Button). Supported actions are ExecuteFunction or ShowTaskpane. -->
              <Action xsi:type="ExecuteFunction">
                <FunctionName>doSomethingAndShowDialog</FunctionName>
              </Action>

check the following link it might be helpful

https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Add-in-Dialog-API-Simple-Example

Unwind