Ribbon visibility in specific Office applications

Modified on Mon, 5 Oct at 1:55 PM

In the case that a client has events running in an Office application but no buttons it is logical to hide the empty tab.

Branded Startup could be implemented in Excel with no buttons needed and therefore no ribbon needed.

The configuration to hide the tab in specific Office applications can be done in the two files:

...\OfficeExtensions\Common\Configuration\RibbonConfig.xml

and

...\OfficeExtensions\Common\Configuration\RibbonTemplate.xml

In RibbonTemplate.xml:

For the tabs configuration for the sd:TabID set

visible="VISIBILITY"

Now it is possible to define whether the tab is visible or not for each Office application.

In RibbonConfig.xml:

To hide the tab in an Office application set

XML
<VISIBILITY>false</VISIBILITY> 

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