Script Lab for Outlook

Key Takeaways

[Music] my name is Courtney Owen I'm an engineer on the office platform extensibility team and specifically I work on dev X features developer experience features so over the last quarter we've shipped a couple really cool features one of them is script lab for outlook and I'm not sure if any of you have experience with script lab but script lab has been supported on Excel Word and PowerPoint for quite some time but we haven't had a support for outlook until well just a few weeks ago so I've got my outlook open here I already have the extension installed you see it here script lab but if you want to install it yourself you can just go into the extension store and I also I want to get fair warning this machine that I'm demoing on is not the most robust machine in fact I ordered a new one yesterday so things are not going to be as snappy as they might be on your machines so if I type in script here you see script lab for outlook and you can read more details about what it does but for those of you who are not familiar with script lab it's a tool that was designed during a thing that we have at Microsoft called hackathon where you can basically work on kind of any little project that you want to and a few people got together I guess maybe to go and worked on script lab and what it allows you to do is to develop office j/s code to perform actions in office and to immediately see the results of that code so what I'm going to do is I'm going to open the runner here and this will probably be much snappier on your machine than it is on mine okay so that's open so first I'm just gonna show you I have a script already loaded and if you see this little tack here this allows you to pin the task pane such that when I navigate through mail items the task theme will remain open and pick up the context of the mail item them in so here I'm doing who is this mail from I'm gonna click this and it's gonna say as your DevOps when I go down here it remains open and it says it's from Lu and you can just keep going on from there now let's say that I want to do a new script I want to create a office share script that does something different so then I can either go here and click on code or there's a button here this is open code editor okay now see that's the previous script that I created who's this from but we have a library of samples that you can choose from here and script lab for Outlook is supported in Outlook read mode outlook compose mode appointment create mode and appointment attendee mode so the samples here indicate what the mode is so since I'm in read mode right now let's find another read script and see how that automatically loaded there and then I can go who's this - and once again navigate through here and you can see this out office chasse is immediately executed in your pane here so you can you know make a quick change just a couple exclamation points and you'll see those exclamation points were picked up message sent to so it's a super fast way to test out your office j/s scripts and this is new to outlook this is also supported on the web so if I go over to the web here the UI's a little bit different for the web just because the way Outlook Web Access works and so here it's a flyout here and you do run and you can pin it just as you do in desktop once again who's this from this is from so that's how script lab for Outlook works so we work on edge Chrome Safari we work on Windows desktop Mac desktop Firefox right now has a bug in it not just for Outlook script lab but also for the other hosts as well so hopefully you guys will appreciate that and give it a shot [Music]