notebook-post-sections.md

title	description	author	ms.localizationpriority	ms.subservice	doc_type
Create section	Create a new section in the specified notebook.	jewan-microsoft	medium	onenote	apiPageType

Create section

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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Create a new section in the specified notebook.

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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.

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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.
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/beta/me/onenote/notebooks/{id}/sections
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Section name"
}

C#

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CLI

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Go

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Java

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JavaScript

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PHP

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PowerShell

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Python

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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/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "isDefault": true,
  "pagesUrl": "pagesUrl-value",
  "displayName": "name-value",
  "id": "8fcb5dbc-d5aa-4681-8e31-b001d5168d79",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "id-value",
      "displayName": "displayName-value"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "id-value",
      "displayName": "displayName-value"
    }
  }
}