ApplicationFactory.CreateAction(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel

Assemblies:: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll, Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities.dll

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Creates a Action object that represents an action for a smart tag. This type or member is intended to be used only in projects for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Smart tags are deprecated in Office 2010..

public:
 Microsoft::Office::Tools::Excel::Action ^ CreateAction(System::String ^ caption);

public Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Action CreateAction (string caption);

abstract member CreateAction : string -> Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Action

Public Function CreateAction (caption As String) As Action

Parameters

caption: String

The name of the action, which is displayed by the smart tag menu.

Returns

Action

The new smart tag action.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to create a smart tag and an action in an Excel workbook project. To use this example, run the code from the ThisAddIn class.

    private Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Action displayAddress;

    private void AddSmartTag()
    {
        Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.SmartTag smartTagDemo =
            Globals.Factory.CreateSmartTag(
                "www.microsoft.com/Demo#DemoSmartTag",
                "Demonstration Smart Tag");

        // Specify a term and an expression to recognize.
        smartTagDemo.Terms.Add("sale");
        smartTagDemo.Expressions.Add(
            new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(
            @"[I|i]ssue\s\d{5,6}"));

        displayAddress = Globals.Factory.CreateAction("To be replaced");


        // Add the action to the smart tag.
        smartTagDemo.Actions = new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Action[] { 
            displayAddress };

        // Add the smart tag.
        this.VstoSmartTags.Add(smartTagDemo);

        displayAddress.BeforeCaptionShow += new 
            Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.BeforeCaptionShowEventHandler(
            DisplayAddress_BeforeCaptionShow);

        displayAddress.Click += new 
            Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ActionClickEventHandler(
            DisplayAddress_Click);
    }

WithEvents displayAddress As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Action

Private Sub AddSmartTag()

    Dim smartTagDemo As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.SmartTag = _
        Globals.Factory.CreateSmartTag(
        "www.microsoft.com/Demo#DemoSmartTag",
        "Demonstration Smart Tag")

    ' Specify a term and an expression to recognize.
    smartTagDemo.Terms.Add("sale")
    smartTagDemo.Expressions.Add( _
        New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex( _
        "[I|i]ssue\s\d{5,6}"))

    displayAddress = Globals.Factory.CreateAction("To be replaced")

    ' Add the action to the smart tag.
    smartTagDemo.Actions = New Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Action() { _
            displayAddress}

    ' Add the smart tag.
    Me.VstoSmartTags.Add(smartTagDemo)
End Sub

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