Outlook add-in check inline reply mode

Question

I was forwarded to stackoverflow for questions.

I have created an addin for outlook that i want to publish on Add-ins store. I have received failures on my application that i need to resolve.

When the user has made the action in my add-in. I close the email with "Office.context.mailbox.item.close()"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/outlook/office.messagecompose?view=outlook-js-1.5#close--

When using Outlook Desktop and replying with "inline reply mode" this method does not work. Is there a way to check if the mail is in "inline reply mode" or not?

I have made a image to be shown that the process is finished and i hope this works since closing the taskpane does not work.

Answer 1

As you noted above, Office.context.mailbox.item.close() does not work for inline replies in the desktop Outlook client. Unfortunately, we have no way of checking whether the email is in inline reply mode or not. We have a UserVoice page where we track feature requests. Please don't to add a feature request there. Feature requests on user-voice are considered, when we go through our planning process.