Microsoft Flow: Copy OneNote Notebook

Why?

Let’s say we have a template library and we have a OneNote Template Notebook in there that we want to use as a template for other libraries or sub folders. It should be very simple like my previous post (view it for related info like used variables below) : https://knowhere365.space/microsoft-flow-create-a-file-based-on-another-file-in-sharepoint/… when you realize that a OneNote Notebook actually is a special kind of Folder the Get file content acftion will result in a failed error.

What?

This post will explain on how we can use the relatively new action: Copy folder to get a full OneNote Notebook copied.

How?

1) First you want to get the OneNote Template Notebook using the Get files (properties only) action:

I use a substringof function in the Filter Query to make sure that I only get the OneNote Template Notebook. See https://knowhere365.space/microsoft-flow-odata-filter-query/ for more OData filter query information.

2) Then simply copy the OneNote Template Notebook using the Copy folder action with the Identifier property of the previous action:

Microsoft Flow will probably put this action into an Apply to each action because of possible multiple outputs so don’t be frightened 😱.

3) Optionally you may want to change the name of the OneNote Template Notebook: untill it is possible to rename the file in the same copy action we need to use the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action:

Uri:

/_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('bidMGM_Documents/@{variables('varItemName')}/TemplateNotebook')/ListItemAllFields

Headers:

{
  "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
  "X-HTTP-Method": "MERGE",
  "IF-MATCH": "*"
}

Body:

{
'Title':'@{variables('varItemName')}_Notebook',
'FileLeafRef':'@{variables('varItemName')}_Notebook'
}