OneNote: Fetching contents of non-active page

[msiemens]

Expected Behavior

Using the OneNote API to fetch the page contents of a non-active page should succeed.

Current Behavior

An error is thrown:

RichApi.Error: Accessing page contents of inactive page is not allowed

Either this error should not happen or – if intended – this should be documented in the OneNote API documentation.

Steps to Reproduce

const section = context.application.getActiveSection();
section.pages.load();
await context.sync();

const page = section.pages.getItem(5); // In this example the page with index 5 is NOT active
page.contents.load();
await context.sync();

page.contents.load();

Your Environment

• Platform: Office on the web Add-In using the Yo Office generator

[AlexJerabek]

Thanks for reporting this @msiemens.

@JuaneloJuanelo, could you please help investigate this OneNote issue or find the right owner?

[ElizabethSamuel-MSFT]

@msiemens The OneNote page does need to be active for fetching page content to succeed - see https://docs.microsoft.com/office/dev/add-ins/onenote/onenote-add-ins-page-content#accessing-page-contents.

If you would like to see support added for getting the content of non-active OneNote pages, please upvote or request a feature on UserVoice.

Thanks.