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.

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

{
  "displayName": "Section name"
}
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"
    }
  }
}