Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

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Posted on 30 Apr 2019 19:55:05 by cooper33

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I am using the OneNote action Create section in a notebook but cannot get the Notebook to connect to the Flow. The error is Action 'Create section in a notebook 2' failed and the error details are the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible. I am choosing the Notebook Key parameter from the dropdown. All my notebooks are in a SharePoint library and I can see them all. This is failing for multiple notebooks. Trigger action is When an item is created. In the error details, the Notebook key looks good: Name of my Notebook|$|https://contoso.com/sites/accounting/Shared Documents/Name of my notebook

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matteomessmer 9 on 05 Jul 2024 at 10:24:40

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

Does anyone have any idea whether it can be solved? Has a ticket ever been opened in microsoft? It's quite an annoying bug
ScottT2 14 on 15 Jul 2022 at 15:36:35

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

This seems to be a know issue with the OneNote actions. I've done some testing. It fails for newly created Notebooks. But in my testing it will eventually work after some hours... not sure the exact time frame.

I also verified this by running the Get Recent Notebooks action. I created a notebook. Ran a flow with this action and that notebook is not in the array of notebooks that is returned. I ran it again the next day and it was there.

So this is def a bug... as typical with Microsoft!
Mattw112b 1,084 on 05 Jun 2019 at 14:57:15

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

I am having same issue and have verified the name before the $ is fine.
v-lin-msft 728 on 02 May 2019 at 05:21:32

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

Hi @cooper33 ,

I have made a test on my side and the flow works well, and I also reproduce your problem.
Succeed:
Failed:
"message": "Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible."
According to these two screenshots, we can see that your problem may be that you filled in the wrong name of Notebook, so the Key of Notebook is wrong. Please make sure that the name of Notebook before '[$]Https' is correct, and then try it again.

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Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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cooper33 249 on 30 Apr 2019 at 21:35:24

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

I have also tried initializing a variable (string) and setting it to text value, then plugging the value into the Title section which did not change the error I got
The Flow is working when I create a new Notebook and add the section there. But not with my original notebook which is where I want to create the section
Brad_Groux 4,556 on 30 Apr 2019 at 20:57:28

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

If you'll review the OneNote Connector documentation, you'll notice that the Create a Section in a Notebook action require that the Name of the new section be a string. Currently, it looks like you are putting in the plain text of Test, which would not be a string. So, you should either pass in Dynamic content like the Name or ID parameter from the When an item is created trigger, or you need to covert your text to a string using an expression.
I just created and ran the following test Flow without issue:
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cooper33 249 on 30 Apr 2019 at 20:36:20

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

Here is my Flow configuration (simplified from original) and also the error details
Brad_Groux 4,556 on 30 Apr 2019 at 20:30:44

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

If you could provide an expanded screenshot of your Flow and steps, and of any detailed error messages you're receiving, we could likely better assist you. Obviously, you'd want to redact any personal information from the screenshot before sharing - but the more information we have, the better.
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cooper33 249 on 30 Apr 2019 at 20:26:10

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

Thanks for the suggestion. Still getting the same error
Brad_Groux 4,556 on 30 Apr 2019 at 20:14:40

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Re: Error; the requested notebook or section may have been deleted or is otherwise inaccessible.

Try removing and re-adding and/or refreshing the connection to OneNote from within the Flow Connections page.
You can do so by clicking the ellipsis (...) for the OneNote connection (red circle), and then selecting Switch Account to re-login, or to Delete to completely remove the connector (red box). If you choose to Delete the connector, you would simply re-add it as you normally would.
Then, in your Flow, click the ellipsis (...) for the OneNote step or steps (red circle), and verify that you have the correct account selected under the My connections heading. Finally, if you are still having issues, insure once more that the account(s) that you are trying to use within the Flow have full read/write access to the SharePoint team site(s) where the OneNote notebook(s) is.
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