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Eric Riehl's avatar
Eric Riehl
Copper Contributor
Feb 17, 2017

Set preference of opening in Office Online or Office App

I have a requirement on a current project to have OneNote show up in the New popup within a document set in a SharePoint Online document library. I have added "Notebook.one" as the template for a "Notebook" content type but the experience is not great.

 

When the user goes to add a new OneNote notebook instead of OneNote web app opening the desktop version of OneNote opens, and also presents this message:

 

 

2 Replies

  • Loryan Strant's avatar
    Loryan Strant
    MVP
    Feb 19, 2017
    You screenshot hasn't come through.
    Also are you wanting people to create a new OneNote notebook each time they select it in the New drop-down, or to simply create a new page within the notebook?
    • Eric Riehl's avatar
      Eric Riehl
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 21, 2017
      Thanks for the reply. I was able to get the screenshot to post.

      They need to create a new notebook, not page. They will only have one per doc set, and going forward I a new notebook is created when a doc set is created. However, there are hundreds of existing doc sets that need to have a notebook created.