Changing the body content of email in Outlook Add-In

Question

Hi I am developing an outlook add-in using jQuery. I am trying to add the links to the contents of the emails in the main body. But I am not able to add the links. They only gives the option of known-entities and regular expression which do not fulfill my requirement.

For example let say I have the following emails.

Hi I am trying to make the outlook plugin. Please help me on that.

And another email ::

Hey outlook developers, I am too impatient to find the options of changing the email body in the outlook plugin. Outlook plugins are cool

Now lets say i have the list of words ["Please", "body", "options", "outlook"] to which I have to add links on my email body such that the emails should change into ::

Email 1:

Hi I am trying to make the outlook plugin. Please help me on that.

and Email 2

Hey outlook developers, I am too tired to find the options of changing the email body in the outlook plugin. Outlook plugins are cool

Is there any way I can achieve this in Outlook Desktop or Web in any platforms? Any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

KnownEntities and RegexMatches are effective in these cases, you can check out Contextual add-in , which will add links to the mail body and clicking on those links will open your add-in in place.

If you just want to add a hyperlink to the body, Web based add-in APIs does not support modification of mail body in read mode, whereas you can use Body APIs in compose mode to manipulate the body.

If your scenario is only for read-mode, web-based add-in won't help. For Windows-Outlook, you can create VSTO add-ins and to start with this question should help you.