Customizing a custom ribbon tab

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Customizing a custom ribbon tab
Unable to customize a custom ribbon tab created via Add-In Express via a dotm 
Tim Farrelly


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Hi,

I have created an Add-in Express Word project which customises the Word Ribbon, adding a new tab. This forms the main interface to our product. It targets word 2007 and above.

One of our clients is trying to customise our tab to add one of their own tools to it. They have a template, a dotm file, with a macro in it. The same dotm file has a ribbon customisation in it for which we had to tell them the id of the tab which was "tabInfocouncil" (Id property of the ADXRibbonTab object), so that the customisation could target our tab. Their customisation does not appear though.

Below is the XML with the ribbon customisation (not exactly). I can change
tab id="tabInfocouncil"
to
tab idMso="TabInsert"
And the Insert tab will be successfully customised, but I can not determine how to modify the custom tab. I get no errors when the advanced Word option "Show add-in user interface errors" is on. Any ideas?


<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui">
<ribbon>
<tabs>
<tab id="tabInfocouncil">
<group id="customGroup" label="Contoso">
<button id="customButton" label="Whatever" size="large" imageMso="HappyFace" onAction="Whatever" />
</group>
</tab>
</tabs>
</ribbon>
</customUI>

Thanks
Tim
Posted 13 May, 2015 03:55:48 Top
Andrei Smolin


Add-in Express team


Posts: 18830
 Joined: 2006-05-11
Hello Tim,

Please check section Sharing Ribbon controls across multiple add-ins at https://www.add-in-express.com/docs/net-ribbon-components.php.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 13 May, 2015 08:15:56 Top