Office Add-in Ribbon - Checkbox

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I'm working on an Outlook 365 Add-in. I have a working Manifest XML that shows an icon with the icon responding to a function click. How would I go about adding a checkbox to the compose new email ribbon to the right of the button similar to the example below? I know how to do this VSTO, but looking how to do this using the Office 365 Add-in Javascript implementation. Thanks for any help!

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If you can help me understand what is the exact scenario you are trying to achieve, I can try to suggest alternatives. – Outlook Add-ins Team - MSFT
Sure, I wanted to allow users to check a box to toggle on/off adding/removing a predefined BCC + show/hide the add-in pane on the right hand side. – james
The feature you suggested are currently not part of the product. We track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. Please add your request there. Feature requests on user-voice are considered when we go through our planning process. – Outlook Add-ins Team - MSFT

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The developer wants to create a ribbon button with checkboxes on it. Unfortunately - this is not possible through office-js manifests.

You can check the add-in commands (ribbon buttons for office-js) documentation from here: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js-docs-pr/blob/master/docs/design/add-in-commands.md

From the documentation:

Control types

  • Simple buttons - trigger specific actions.
  • Menus - simple menu dropdown with buttons that trigger actions.

That capability doesn't exist today in office-js framework.