Create section

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new onenoteSection in the specified notebook.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	❌	❌	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Notes.Create	Notes.ReadWrite, Notes.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Notes.Create	Notes.ReadWrite
Application	Notes.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections
POST /groups/{id}/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections
POST /sites/{id}/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	string	application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a name for the section.

Within the same hierarchy level, section names must be unique. The name cannot contain more than 50 characters or contain the following characters: ?*/:<>|&#''%~

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a onenoteSection object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Section name"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new OnenoteSection
{
	DisplayName = "Section name",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Onenote.Notebooks["{notebook-id}"].Sections.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc users onenote notebooks sections create --user-id {user-id} --notebook-id {notebook-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Section name"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewOnenoteSection()
displayName := "Section name"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
sections, err := graphClient.Me().Onenote().Notebooks().ByNotebookId("notebook-id").Sections().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

OnenoteSection onenoteSection = new OnenoteSection();
onenoteSection.setDisplayName("Section name");
OnenoteSection result = graphClient.me().onenote().notebooks().byNotebookId("{notebook-id}").sections().post(onenoteSection);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const onenoteSection = {
  displayName: 'Section name'
};

await client.api('/me/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections')
	.post(onenoteSection);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\OnenoteSection;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new OnenoteSection();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Section name');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->onenote()->notebooks()->byNotebookId('notebook-id')->sections()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Notes

$params = @{
	displayName = "Section name"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserOnenoteNotebookSection -UserId $userId -NotebookId $notebookId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.onenote_section import OnenoteSection
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = OnenoteSection(
	display_name = "Section name",
)

result = await graph_client.me.onenote.notebooks.by_notebook_id('notebook-id').sections.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here is truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "isDefault": true,
  "pagesUrl": "pagesUrl-value",
  "displayName": "name-value",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "id-value",
      "displayName": "displayName-value"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "id-value",
      "displayName": "displayName-value"
    }
  }
}