OneNote Object Model

New Post: Beginners Bits and Pieces

JohnGuin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:03:32 GMT

Excellent! I know it's been awhile since you posted this, but I'd love to see the next phase of your work...

John

New Post: Thanks And How To Get Values?

JohnGuin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:02:05 GMT

Did you check out the Sudoku application?

John

New Post: Is Meta element exposed/available in Object Model/API?

JohnGuin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:01:07 GMT

The metadata nodes are simply nodes that OneNote itself do noes not. It preserves them when the page is updated, but otherwise performs no operations on them.

The text importer at http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/04/30/customer-feedback-results-in-another-powertoy.aspx has some META data embedded in the page. Check out the source code there.

John

New Post: Is Meta element exposed/available in Object Model/API?

rsocko — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:08:01 GMT

In reviewing the OneNote xml spec (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa286798.aspx) there is a Meta element that can be used at multiple levels of the hierarchy to add custom content/properties to the xml content that will not be displayed in the user interface. I am planning to use this to store extra information to allow me to synchronize OneNote content to other systems.

Are these Meta tags part of the .NET OM? I haven't been able to identify them from looking in the code.

Similarly, in the COM object model, there is a FindMeta method on the ApplicationClass. Is this used to find the Meta tags in the OneNote xml content, or is it a more general use method?

New Post: Thanks And How To Get Values?

LoRez — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:16:48 GMT

Thanks for the great work on this object model. I've been exploring it for a few hours now and I haven't figured out how the heck to simply get a value stored on the page. I can navigate through the hierarchy just fine, but if I store some text on a note, how do I get it out, change it or add something new?

I'm sure it's something simple that I'm overlooking, maybe somebody can post a snippet?

Thanks

Patch Uploaded: #1448

hoper — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:04:35 GMT

hoper has uploaded a patch.

Description:
The final beta version of the sudoku addin

Commented Issue: Sudoku Add In

callkathy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:34:24 GMT

This is the spec for Sudoku for OneNote. First draft written by Michelle.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: callkathy **

I found a bug. The new page for the sudoku puzzle always goes in the General section of the topmost notebook. This Jing shows what I first thought was happening (that the page was always going in the General section of Work Notebook):
http://screencast.com/t/5tmk3Ajjl

But in reality, the situation is that the puzzle will always go on a new page of the "General" section of the topmost notebook. IF there isn't a general section, one is created. See this Jing for the bug in action:http://screencast.com/t/py98mkmS

I hope that you can address this and let me know that it is fixed. I would like to blog about the tool. I have been waiting for someone to create a Sudoku for Add-in and I know that many of my blog readers have as well.

Ping me if you need more information or testing.

Kathy Jacobs
OneNote MVP and blogger

Patch Uploaded: #1380

hoper — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:56:06 GMT

hoper has uploaded a patch.

Description:
This is the sudoku beta version.

Patch Uploaded

hoper — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:23:57 GMT

hoper has uploaded a patch.

Description:
This is a preliminar version of sudoku addin, I still have some issues with the tables but at this time is functional.

Patch Uploaded

hoper — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:13:55 GMT

hoper has uploaded a patch.

Description:
This is my current Sudoku project.

NEW POST: Beginners Bits and Pieces

mfleeson — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:03:10 GMT

I stumbled across ONOM after scouring all of the blogs trying to code things for onenote. As a VB.Net developer I converted most of the samples from c# and got a basic addon working.

I started playing with ONOM yesterday and thought I'd document what I found as it may help others.

Firstly I downloaded the zip of the source code and went straight to the new folder and loaded up with VS 2008 project. I built the solution to get the core libraries and the xml viewer.

Once they were built I created a new project and added file references to: onenotecode.dll and onenoteframework.dll and then started hunting around within the xml viewer sample to try and figure out how things worked.

First test and bit of code:

Imports

Microsoft.Office.OneNote

Public

Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim nb As OneNoteNotebook

For Each nb In OneNoteHierarchy.Current.Notebooks

Console.WriteLine(

"Notebooks - " & nb.Name)

End Sub

End

Class

This itterated through the current open notebooks. :)

As I work through the functionality I'll try and produce some class documentation.

Cheers

Mark

Patch Uploaded

alibabaoglan — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:43:45 GMT

alibabaoglan has uploaded a patch.

Description:
Update for One Note 2007 Simple Add-in

Patch Applied

alibabaoglan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:24 GMT

alibabaoglan has applied patch #1143.

Comment:
initial upload

Patch Uploaded

alibabaoglan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:55:03 GMT

alibabaoglan has uploaded a patch.

Description:
Simple Addin For OneNote 2007

NEW POST: Finding and manipulating flagged items

anirudhsaraf — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:12:32 GMT

As far as I know, the API doesn't expose a search method for Tags, only findPages. Searching for tags has a separate search box, so I don't thin you can search for tags through the FindPages API. If you could figure out a way to search for pages containing the the tag you want through the standard search box then you could use the FindPages call to do what you want.

The only way around I can think of is create some sort of indexing service on your own. Let me know if you can figure something out - I am also looking for a way to search all pages for embedded files. An idea I had was to maintain my own separate XML file; and updating it by comparing the lastModifiedTime on the pages. that way I need to build my XML once, and then only update for the pages which are changed. Still not as fast as the indexing service - but still better than parsing all the files. The API is unfortunately a little limited :(.

NEW POST: Finding and manipulating flagged items

CodeGuy3422 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:13:19 GMT

Yes, I meant Tagged. The problem is speed. My understanding is that when OneNote searches tags it is an indexed search. exporting all to XML and then searching would be slow as you said.

NEW POST: Finding and manipulating flagged items

anirudhsaraf — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:05:16 GMT

What exactly do you mean by a flag? An outlook task or a Tag? I don't think the ONOM supports them yet, so you'll have to get your hands dirty with the XML from the page.

You can look at the page XML . For an outlook task it is something like

<one:OE creationTime="2008-04-16T18:59:48.000Z" lastModifiedTime="2008-04-16T18:59:48.000Z" objectID="{6575C543-594E-4863-940C-5FB55B7EB3D8}{70}{B0}" alignment="left">
<one:OutlookTask startDate="2008-04-18T00:00:00.000Z" dueDate="2008-04-18T00:00:00.000Z" guidTask="{B2667F23-3481-49B0-9C90-6D959D6CCCAC}" completed="false" disabled="false" creationDate="2008-04-16T18:59:44.000Z" />
<one:T><!CDATA[Check]></one:T>
</one:OE>
</one:OEChildren>
</one:Outline>

So I assume changing the completed to true, and pushing it back into OneNote should do what you want it to do. However it is going to be really slow if you have to get the XML from each page.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JohnGuin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:38:10 GMT

Project Description
A managed code wrapper for the extensibility API for Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. Allows users to use an object model to interact with the OneNote store.

Prerequisites:
Any code editor of your choice. Visual Studio C# Express is a good choice. Get it free at http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
Install the codeplex client http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlexClient/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4423
NUnit 2.4.3: http://www.nunit.org

Quick Start HowTo:
0. Read the attached guide here http://www.codeplex.com/onom/WorkItem/AttachmentDownload.ashx?WorkItemId=1910&FileAttachmentId=425
<or>
1. Download the most recent changeset (16012as of 4/8-08)
2. extract anywhere (suggestion is to use c:\onom)
3. build the project, run the unit tests
4. Add functionality, fix bugs (see the issue tracker tab)!
5. When you are ready to check in, zip your files and on the source tab, upload a patch.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JohnGuin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:37:40 GMT

Project Description
A managed code wrapper for the extensibility API for Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. Allows users to use an object model to interact with the OneNote store.

Prerequisites:
Any code editor of your choice ( Visual Studio C# Express is a good choice. Get it free at http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/ ))
Install the codeplex client http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlexClient/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4423
NUnit 2.4.3: http://www.nunit.org

Quick Start HowTo:
0. Read the attached guide here http://www.codeplex.com/onom/WorkItem/AttachmentDownload.ashx?WorkItemId=1910&FileAttachmentId=425
<or>
1. Download the most recent changeset (16012as of 4/8-08)
2. extract anywhere (suggestion is to use c:\onom)
3. build the project, run the unit tests
4. Add functionality, fix bugs (see the issue tracker tab)!
5. When you are ready to check in, zip your files and on the source tab, upload a patch.

NEW POST: Finding and manipulating flagged items

CodeGuy3422 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:54:02 GMT

I am trying to figure out how to search for all items across all notebooks that have a specific flag ("open"). I want to be able to get the items and later I want to update the type of flag ("closed"). I need to do this in the .NET 2.0 version. Any pointers?