Notes - SublunarSage/cwu-cs481-project GitHub Wiki
Some Things I've Figured Out
You're limited to 1 CustomTab element, apparently.
The manifest hates:
blank values in strings
Spaces in resids and group labels. Tab labels seem fine, along with controls and tooltips. Something about having a space in a group label pisses it off. It's totally fine with as a replacement though. Someone should probably provide feedback to the OfficeDev team and have them fix it.
You can basically drag and drop elements between different groups.
Also
I've got a manifest builder python script working, I'll open a pull request (again) to add it. It does not do error checking for spaces and the way I built it limits the menu size, but it's a start. I have some upgrades planned for it, like:
Helping with the space character and blank values issue
Adding groups and controls automagically from an xml string
Parsing the existing manifest.xml file and editing it rather then renerating it each time.