oaloader 0.2.1

A handy tool to manage your office addins locally, you can use it for addin development or deploy your addins for your clients out of AppSource.

Office Addin Sideloader

A handy tool to manage your office addins locally, you can use it for addin development or deploy your addins for your clients out of AppSource.

NOTE: currently only support windows.

Features

• Add or remove Office Addin locally.
• Support local or url manifest source.
• Debug sideload status and list manifest info.
• Single binary without any dependency.
• Use it as a library.
• Generate addin installer by single command.

Installation

Pre-built releases

If you just use the command line and don't have a python environment, download pre-built binary from GitHub Releases.

Pypi

> pip install oaloader

Quick Start

> ./oaloader.exe --help
Usage: oaloader.exe [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Manage your office addins locally.

Options:
  --version         Show the version and exit.
  -l, --level TEXT  The log level  [default: info]
  --help            Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  add     Register catalog and add manifests, manifests can be file paths
          or...
  info    Debug sideload status.
  remove  Remove manifest from catalog and manifest can be a file path or...

Build an Addin installer

1. Install Poetry.
2. Run poetry install to prepare environment.
3. Run poetry run invoke installer -m <YOUR-ADDIN-MANIFEST-URL> to build your own installer.

If your want customize the installer, just edit installer.jinja2 or write your own installer with oaloader module.

How it works

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/testing/create-a-network-shared-folder-catalog-for-task-pane-and-content-add-ins