{"id":1145,"date":"2015-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:51:50","slug":"file-handler-add-ins-now-generally-available-in-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/file-handler-add-ins-now-generally-available-in-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"File Handler Add-Ins Now Generally Available in Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-content\">\n<div>During Build and Ignite 2015, we announced the preview refresh of File Handler add-ins. This add-in type allows developers to create their own custom viewers and editors for non-Microsoft file types in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Outlook Web App.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"&rdquo;img-responsive&rdquo;\" width=\"628\" height=\"365\" alt=\"File Handler add-ins - owa\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/05\/owa.png\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"&rdquo;img-responsive&rdquo;\" width=\"477\" height=\"330\" alt=\"File Handler add-ins - Sharepoint\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/05\/sp.png\"><\/div>\n<div>We are pleased to announce that this feature is now generally available 100% in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, and is rolled out to 50% of all Exchange Online tenants. The feature is currently rolling out to additional Exchange tenants and should be available to everyone in the next few weeks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Ignite\/2015\/BRK4114\">This Ignite talk is a detailed tutorial on building your own file handlers<\/a>, but to get started quickly you can:  <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\">You can download the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/GPX-FileHandler\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\">sample File Handler on Github<\/a><span style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\">&nbsp;to take a look at how these apps work.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/office365\/howto\/using-cross-suite-apps\">documentation for file handler add-ins<\/a> in MSDN to get a more detailed overview of this feature.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\">Start experimenting with your own file handlers (and let us know what you think in the comments)&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"text-indent: -0.25in;font-family: Wingdings\">J<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<div><br>Happy coding!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Build and Ignite 2015, we announced the preview refresh of File Handler add-ins. This add-in type allows developers to create their own custom viewers and editors for non-Microsoft file types<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69076,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-add-ins"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>During Build and Ignite 2015, we announced the preview refresh of File Handler add-ins. This add-in type allows developers to create their own custom viewers and editors for non-Microsoft file types<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}