I would like to create a new notebook in OneNote. As soon as I do this, my new notebook fills up with "misplaced sections" from other notebooks. I am afraid that if I delete the misplaced sections in the new notebook that the deletions will synch back to other notebooks.
Is it possible to create a new OneNote notebook that is not related and does not synch with other notebooks.
My team at work uses OneNote on a daily basis. I would like to create a notebook that contains a higher level of detail that is not automatically synch'd to the team notebook. This will contain low-level notes that no one else will really need.
Is it possible to create a standalone notebook that does not endanger other notebooks with unintended synchs?
For user questions, feel free to ping us #msonenote on twitter. I am unable to understand the issue you are facing, but I think if you provide us with a screenshot on our twitter, we'd be able to help you.
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The question is pretty clear I think, but I will elaborate on why I'm asking it.
I created a little blog engine based on OneNote. Basically, the blog configuration asks for an access to OneNote. Then the user chooses a section under which the blog posts are stored.
There is a cron script that will use all these informations to automatically get new pages, fetch the medias and cache every, and finally display the posts.
I chose OneNote because I own three Windows 8 computers and a Windows Phone, so OneNote was an easy choice, as I didn't want to get an other application to manage my blog.
There is still a lot to do (as always with softwares...), but I want to make this more or less an open source project, so that other people can install it on their websites and link it directely to OneNote.
The only "big" obstacle for this now is that authentication in the OneNote API needs to register the application on the Live Connect, and specify a redirect domain. So every user wishing to use this blog engine on their server will have to register their own application... That will look complicated just for a blog, especially if you're not tech-savvy.
Is there a way to "skip" or work around this requirement, even if it requires the user to make the section public (as it is for a blog, this doesn't seem too much to ask) ?
Thank you in advance,
Cheers
Sounds like an awesome project! When you get it released be sure to let us know at #OneNoteDev.
Unfortunately, at this time there's no way to circumvent the requirement for Live Connect OAuth configuration. You could offer a hosted variant so only you need to worry about the LiveID configuration.
We are building an offline version of our online store.
This is for reps to take with them on a tablet when they are out. The reason it needs to be offline is because there will be no connection in a lot of the places and we aren't using tablets with 3/4g connectivity.We use Windows 8.1/RT based tablets.
Since php relies on a server and the tablets cannot be installed with xampp or the like, I have rebuilt the site using html and css.
So far this works and has some flexibility in it. The website is turned into an application using googles create application button in its tools (though technically it's not really an application). It has all the product info, pictures and videos the reps need. Another advantage to this is that the application and files are stored on a one drive cloud account shared to all the tablets. This way, I can update the app/website from my machine and have it up to date on all the reps machines. This current set up works for now but we are looking to add some more functionality.
What we want is a button on each product that will let a rep add an amount of that particular product to a quote form. Because each product sits on a different page, it can't be in the one page form. So as the rep is pressing the buttons on each product, they are getting stored somewhere. Then at the end, the rep can turn all those values into a word doc/pdf/excel by hitting a final submit button.
I have looked at web storage in html 5 but still not quite sure if I can get what I need using it.
Going through the explination here:
http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html
looks like sites can store info but not sure how to turn this into a form or document at the end. This document is what the reps will email back to the head office.
Has anyone got any pointers on what I could do. Since the site/app has been created in html already, I would like to just build into the existing framework. Are there any other pieces of software that I could use? I do remember using spreadsheet converter to turn an excel file into a web form that exported a pdf but the form needs to be on a single page.
All help appreciated.
Thanks
I have been developing one Windows Store app for Win 8.1. Is there a way to access the user's OneDrive which is already synced on the hard drive? I need to access it as a StorageFolder. Similarly to KnownFolders and all the libraries. The reason behind that is that I am doing something like a gallery app that displays thumbnails of videos and pictures. When the users decides the app shows the media in full size and if it is a video, it is played. The app counts on the fact that OneDrive automatically syncs all the data, so it does need to be retrieved via the Live SDK API. If I use REST, it will be just too slow. Do you know if there is a way to achieve the mentioned approach effectively or maybe some alternative?
I have been researching extensively, but with no avail.
Thank you!
All the best,
Rosko
As Nate mentioned, you gain access to the folder through the FolderPicker API. There's no direct way to obtain the StorageFolder for that location.
Once you get that StorageFolder and enumerate contents, the extra piece you want to know about is the StorageFile.isAvailable API, as well as StorageFile.getThumbnailAsync/getScaledImageAsThumbnailAsync. The isAvailable flag is what tells you whether a file has actually been downloaded/synced, because the user might have indicated "online only" for any files.
I write about this a bit in Chapter 11 of my free ebook Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Edition (page 575, pages 593-597), including a table about how OneDrive availability works with metered networks. This includes using thumbnails.
There's also a talk from //build 2013 on this, "What New in Working with Files" by Marc Wautier, http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2013/2-119. Should answer your OneDrive questions.
I have a csv file with 24 columns. Out of these I only want to read 3 columns. I see that super CSV is a very powerful library, but I can't figure out how to partially read a CSV. The link that have on partial reading is broken.
Please do help me out with a working example.
Update: SourceForge is back online! The Super CSV site should work now :)
That's the correct link, but SourceForge project websites are down right now (according to the SourceForge blog):
Starting at 12:59 UTC today, we experienced a site outage, causing
general connectivity issues sitewide. At 15:12 UTC, site connectivity
was restored and most services, including downloads, are now back
online. Some services are however are offline while we continue to
diagnose and determine the root cause for this issue. The services
still offline are:
Project web (ie., projectname.sourceforge.net pages) and associated
shell and database services. This also includes access through sftp,
scp, and rsync via ssh.
So you have a few options:
view the source code of the reading example on SourceForge (this part of SF is still working). There's a link to download the file at the top left.
check out the project source from subversion (you can view/run the reading example listed above to see how it works, or you can even run mvn site:site to generate the project website locally
view the cached page from Google
I hope you enjoy using Super CSV - if you have any other questions feel free to post them here on SO, or on the project help forum on SourceForge.
I have what seems like a typical usage scenario for users downloading, editing and uploading a document from a web page.
User clicks a link to download a document
User edits downloaded file
User saves the file
User goes back to the web page and uploads the new file with the changes
The problem is that downloaded files are typically saved in a temporary directory, so it can be difficult to find the file after it is saved. The application is for very non-technical users, and I can already imagine the problems with saved files being lost or the wrong versions being uploaded.
Is there a better way? Things I've thought about:
Using Google Docs or something similar.
Problems: forcing users to use new
application with less features,
importing legacy content, setting up
accounts for everyone to edit a
file.
Using WebDAV to serve the files. Not sure how this would work exactly, but seems like it should be possible
Some kind of Flash or Java app that manages downloads and uploads. Not sure if these even exist.
User education :)
If it matters, the files will be mostly Word and Powerpoint documents.
Actually, despite the fact that you have more flexibility with AJAX in developing application, the problem of uploading multiple files is not solved yet.
To the thoughts you've mentioned in your question:
Google Docs:
Online apps like Google docs are certainly appealing for certain use cases. However, if you'd like to upload Word and Powerpoint slides, you don't want the content to be changed once you've uploaded the document. The problem is that Google Docs uses its own data format and therefore changes some of the formats. If you go for an online app, I'd go for a Document Management Solution. I'm sure there are plenty (even free ones) out there; however, I didn't use any on them yet.
WebDAV It is possible and seems to me like the best solution. You can embed WebDav like any directory. Documents are locked until a user releases the document. Unfortunately, you don't have a web front end to manage the files or administer access restrictions.
It
Flash or Java app They do exist, for sure. I'd prefer Flash over Java since Flash Apps still run smoother within a browser. I would definitely not use a rich application, even if it is a Java Web Start app that can be downloaded and opens in a separate window. More and more, users seem to accept browser based web applications. Which brings me to point 4:
User education You can educate them, sure. But in the end you want them to want to use the system. Most often, users get easily used to a tool. However, if they don't like the tool, they're not going to use it.
Clear instructions to save to their desktop is a start. Then clear instructions to go to the desktop to re-up it. I've not run across an online MSWord viewer/editor or whatever format the file is, but I'm sure they exist, now that Google Docs and a few other online versions of MSOffice exist.
I would make sure that there are easy to follow instructions, plus a tutorial somewhere else (perhaps with a video too) to guide users through the process.