When a section renamed get sections API doesn't reflect the updated name whereas get page api shows updated parent section name. This seems to be bug/ data inconsistency in ON API.
On change of anything at page level updates the lastModifiedDateTime for a section but nothing gets changed at notebook level. This again seems to be like some data inconsitency issue.
Can somebody clear this confusion.
(Note - All above can be tested using MS Graph API Explorer
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These are two separate topics:
Section renaming
This is a known limitation/bug in OneNote - if you rename a section in OneNote Online (in your browser), then the API GET ~/notebooks/id/sections or GET ~/sections will give you the "old" name. This is because OneNote Online doesn't actually rename a file, it only marks the file as "to be renamed" - if you were to look at the file itself in OneDrive/SharePoint it would still have the old name.
Once the OneNote Native Client sees the section (for example OneNote for Windows) sees the section that has been marked as "to be renamed", it actually renames the file.
The OneNote API GET ~/sections/id/pages actually looks at the section binaries and is able to tell whether the section is renamed or not, which is why that name can be trusted as the "most up to date" one.
I have communicated this feedback to our team and we are exploring alternatives - I encourage you to start an item in uservoice so we can better understand impact.
https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/245490-onenote-developer-apis
LastModifiedTime (LMT) on notebook/section clarifications:
The LMT of a section is equal to max(LMT of pages under it).
The LMT of a section group however is not max (LMT of sections and section groups under it). A section group is a folder and its LMT should behave like that of a folder in a traditional file system (reflects time of last add/delete of a file/folder directly under it).
However, there is nothing stopping you from using $expand and calculating the LMT (as you understand it) yourself based on the entities below the notebook/section group.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/onenotedev/2014/12/16/beta-get-onenote-entities-in-one-roundtrip-using-expand/
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I am working on a Power Automate flow....and beating my head against a wall as well. It seems so easy, but it is failing with an error "The Response is not in a JSON format"
The intention of the flow is to set up standard folders in some 200 SharePoint sites within my company. In two files on each of these sites, I want to add a Year Folder (i.e. 2022) and a Month Folder (10-Oct). Seems straight forward.
I have a SharePoint list that contains all the SharePoint sites. After manually triggering this flow, it references the SharePoint List (Get Items). Then working down the list of SharePoint site (Apply to Each), Create the new folders. Been researching & tinkering with this for a couple of hours.
The "Directory" is pulled from the SP List as well: for this example assume it is "Share Documents1" thou it does vary slightly around the company...
The naming is all correct....
Here is the Error output. I am at a loss...
I see there are some strange characters in your site address value. :f:/r/ Can you remove that part from the value?
This error was thrown due to extra characters in the SharePoint Site Address. When using the "Copy Link" feature within SharePoint, it adds extra characters that are not required, in this case they were :f:/r/.
Once removed, the JSON error was resolved and the flow worked perfectly. Lesson learned, inspect the address for additional strings that are not truly required, remove those, test the link to ensure still valid, then utilize the streamlined link.
This is similar question as OneNote pages API doesn't return pages in section-groups.
I'm using the Get sections and get Section pages with Sections expanded to get names for all pages in a notebook. However using the same requests all the time, the sections in section groups sometimes disappears, and wont reappear before recreating the group.
Is this a bug that one can somehow work around, or is there a better way of polling all the page names from a specific notebook? The pages need to be in order.
If you are trying to get all the page names for a Notebook, a work-around exists by using an OData nested filter. The idea is to query for all pages, $expand the parentNotebook, and then $filter on the id of the parentNotebook. Here is an example URL.
GET ~/pages?$expand=parentNotebook&$filter=parentNotebook/id%20eq%20'{$notebook_id_here}'
Here is another SO question where someone employs a similar pattern: Best way to use One Note API to GET specific pages in specific section in specific notebook?
Update:
You can control the order of the returned pages by using OData's $orderby and specifying properties that exist on the entities in the returned entity set (in this case, the entity is pages). From dev.onenote.com: "The default [order] is lastModifiedTime desc (most recently modified page first)."
Under https://dev.onenote.com/docs#/reference/get-pages there is a section, "Page properties", that shows all the properties returned by this call. Since we are getting all the pages available to a user that exist in a notebook, the only property we can use is unfortunately createdTime.
The query param to add looks like $orderby=createdTime
In full:
GET ~/pages?$expand=parentNotebook&$filter=parentNotebook/id%20eq%20'{$notebook_id_here}&$orderby=createdTime
I just tested this using Fiddler against my own pages so I think it should work. The nice thing is that it is a single request.
GET https://www.onenote.com/api/v1.0/me/notes/pages?$expand=parentNotebook&$filter=parentNotebook/id%20eq%20'{$YOUR_NOTEBOOK_ID_HERE}'&$orderby=createdTime
While trying to import some Android projects into Eclipse, I have noticed that every file in the project is 0 bytes after they are imported. These projects are stored on Drive, so there is some chance of reverting them back to the previous version.
Reverting files to previous versions is easy to do when you've got a few files - you simply do it through a browser. However, I have hundreds of files and I need to fetch one revision back for each. I have been able to download a number of files by hand thus far, but there has to be a better way.
I have asked Google support and actually got a response back, but it's clear that there is no built-in functionality to do this. So I have started looking at the Drive API but I can see that there might be a bit of a learning curve.
Wondering if anyone has run into this before? Ideally I would like to identify one folder and for each file underneath, fetch the last version of the file. If anyone has a good approach for this, I would love to hear it.
thanks!
The pseudeo code to do what you want is
# get the id of the folder https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list
fid=file.list(q=title = 'foo')[0]
# get the children of that folder https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/children/list
children = file.children(fid).maxresults=999
# for each child,
for id in children.id
# get the revisions https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/revisions/get
revisions = file.revisions(id)
# iterate, or take item[1] whatever works best for you, and use its downloadUrl to fetch the file
With each call that you make, you'll need to provide an access token. For something like this, you can generate an access token using the oauth playground https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
You'll also need to register a project at the cloud/api console https://code.google.com/apis/console/
So ye, it's a disproportionate amount of learning to do something fairly simple. It's a few minutes work for somebody familiar with drive, and I would guess 3 days for somebody who isn't. You might want to throw it up on freelancer.com.
Scenario:
I have multiple browser clients whose internet connection varies from very fast to super slow. Because of that they might not see same state of a document.
I'm using Google shortcut file since the document is actually being stored in database.
saving document to database is triggered from client-side.
Question: how do I know which client got the most up to date document that should be saved to the database?
You are right that you can't rely on any particular client being the most up to date at a particular time. There is no easy way to determine that, since that can change at any given instant. (Although you can make sure that you don't have any unsaved changes in a particular client by looking at the document save state.)
Rather than trying to do this based on client state, you can use the export capability that is part of the Drive API, which will give you a valid snapshot of the data with a revision number so you can track what version you have.
Note that this is a brand new feature, so its not yet well documented. The response is a json object with the appId, revision number, and a data field which contains a json version of the document. It looks something like this, for a document that has a collab list "list" and collab string "text" in the root:
{"appId":"788242802491","revision":17,
"data":{"id":"root","type":"Map",
"value":{
"list":{"id":"gde9s8z5khjarls7o","type":"List","value":[]},
"text":{"id":"gdef98qdhiq679af","type":"EditableString","value":"This is a test 2."}}}}
Question:
How can I get a list of all checked out files per user in Sourcegear Vault?
Use of this functionality:
From time to time we have developers leaving files checked out and although this results in drastic punishment (they owe a coffee to the person who needed the checked out file) we are still left with files checked out and work held up.
We would like to display a list of all current number of files checked out by each developer. This way they can check if they have anything checked out before they go home or out the office.
In the Vault Client app, use the Search tab at the bottom of the window.
Select Search By: "Checked Out By" to see a list of all files checked out by a specific user, or by any user.
You can choose to search a specific sub-folder, or from the root, recursively or not.
To automate this, use the Vault Command-Line client (vault.exe)
vault -host myhost.mydomain -user something -password something -repository myrepo listcheckouts
Will give you a list, in XML, of all checked-out files and their users. You can transform the results, or use the command-line client's source code (provided as an example with the Vault .NET API) as a starting point to write your own version.
The various clients and APIs can be grabbed from http://sourcegear.com/vault/downloads.html - didn't want to link to a specific version that would be outdated after the next release.