Validated Excel addin manifest works in Excel locally but not in excel online

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I am using Office.js to create an Excel add-in. I am hosting my website on https://localhost:3000 and installed the office dev certs.

When i sideload the manifest.xml locally with office-addin-debugging start manifest.xml desktop, the addin works fine.

However, when i want to sideload the add-in by uploading the manifest on excel online, i get the following error:

ExcelOnlineValidationFail

I validated the manifest using office-addin-manifest validate .\manifest.xml and it specifically say that it is targeting Excel online and it is valid.

Here is a gist of the manifest and the validate output.

I already checked Excel JS Add-In works in Excel but not Excel Online and it does not seem to applicable in my case, as i am not using visual studio F5 options.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

Edit: It may be also important to add that the same manifest file sideloaded a few days ago without errors on excel online.

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I think this is a bug. Could you please raise this as an issue on the office-js repo? Please emphasize that it was working a few days ago. Thanks. – Rick Kirkham
Done, thank you. For anyone that finds this thread here is the issue – Mutagene

1 Answers

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Just one tip, you can open the Developer Tool by F12, in the Console log, you could see the most error logs.

For this case, the error message is: 

Invalid manifest from addincommands dev catalog. Exception details: {"name":"AddinManifestError","message":"AddinManifestError: resid: Commands.Url not found"}

After adding "Commands.Url" under , the manifest was side-loaded correctly...