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When Office 365 is invoked in Microsoft Teams how does one percolate the teams context to the office Host or rather the office add-in environment? Is there any support in the Teams SDK or Office API for the same










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          • I am editing the word document inside MS Teams and my add-in also runs in the Office host running within MS Teams. I have written the following JS script
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          • I have written JS script in my office add-in to initialize the microsoftteams environment and to read the context but they dont return anything. Are you saying that such a scenario of Office running within MSTeams is not supported in the Teams SDK
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          • I have written JS script in my office add-in to initialize the microsoftteams environment and to read the context but they dont return anything. Are you saying that such a scenario of Office running within MSTeams is not supported in the Teams SDK
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          • I am editing the word document inside MS Teams and my add-in also runs in the Office host running within MS Teams. I have written the following JS script
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          • I have written JS script in my office add-in to initialize the microsoftteams environment and to read the context but they dont return anything. Are you saying that such a scenario of Office running within MSTeams is not supported in the Teams SDK
            – Codecrasher99
            Nov 9 at 7:34


















          • I am editing the word document inside MS Teams and my add-in also runs in the Office host running within MS Teams. I have written the following JS script
            – Codecrasher99
            Nov 9 at 7:28










          • I have written JS script in my office add-in to initialize the microsoftteams environment and to read the context but they dont return anything. Are you saying that such a scenario of Office running within MSTeams is not supported in the Teams SDK
            – Codecrasher99
            Nov 9 at 7:34
















          I am editing the word document inside MS Teams and my add-in also runs in the Office host running within MS Teams. I have written the following JS script
          – Codecrasher99
          Nov 9 at 7:28




          I am editing the word document inside MS Teams and my add-in also runs in the Office host running within MS Teams. I have written the following JS script
          – Codecrasher99
          Nov 9 at 7:28












          I have written JS script in my office add-in to initialize the microsoftteams environment and to read the context but they dont return anything. Are you saying that such a scenario of Office running within MSTeams is not supported in the Teams SDK
          – Codecrasher99
          Nov 9 at 7:34




          I have written JS script in my office add-in to initialize the microsoftteams environment and to read the context but they dont return anything. Are you saying that such a scenario of Office running within MSTeams is not supported in the Teams SDK
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