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Help creating a link that opens OneNote in the APP that is hosted on SharePoint
I have a notebook that is hosted on a SharePoint site.
I have several coworkers that have to move around from PC to PC depending on where they are assigned each week. Currently each time they move to a different area they are required to open the hyperlink to the OneNote and then select the "Open In App" to get it to populate in the regular app for them.
Does anyone have a solution where I can leave a shortcut that opens directly to the app so they can skip the "open in app" step. My co-workers aren't particularly computer savvy and that one extra step is hanging a lot of them up.
- If anyone come across this I figured it out:
1. Open the notebook in one note.
2. In the upper left where you select your book right click and select "Copy link to this notebook"
3. Past this link into notepad. There will be two links. Copy the one that reads like this:
onenote:https://linktoyouronenoteonsharepoint
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop and past this link in. This link should launch directly to one note instead of to your browser.
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When I use the solution posted here, my link works when I paste it into the browser address bar, but when I try to create the same link in a SharePoint document library I get the message "please enter a valid URL," and doesn't allow me to create the link. I need the notebook link to reside in a shared document library but was hoping it would open in the app. Any other ideas? Thanks!
I found a solution to open a notebook in Sharepoint (app or browser) using a Quick Link-component:
- Go to the location of the notebook file in your document library
- Click the 3 dots to open the menu
- Click 'Open' to check the options 'In browser' / 'In app'
- When you click on 'Open in browser', there will appear a URL in your address bar
- Copy this URL
- Make a Quick Link on your SP-site and paste the above URL.
- Click this Quick Link
(Using this URL it also loads up much faster, than when you use the URL generated in notebook itself)
- If anyone come across this I figured it out:
1. Open the notebook in one note.
2. In the upper left where you select your book right click and select "Copy link to this notebook"
3. Past this link into notepad. There will be two links. Copy the one that reads like this:
onenote:https://linktoyouronenoteonsharepoint
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop and past this link in. This link should launch directly to one note instead of to your browser.You are simply great. I couldn't figure that out. In fact, I didn't check it in the first place.
You made my life easy. I was about to go for the todoist-OneNote integration, but that'd be a wrong decision because I wouldn't have choice to link the note individually with the individual task. But now with this link suggested by you, I can easily do that. I checked it and it works great.
Thanks a lot.
