OneNote Shared Notebooks - Options and Troubleshooting - Part 2: Notebooks On SharePoint

OneNote shared notebooks - notebooks on SharePoint

Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:00:59 GMT

Back in December I pointed people to something David wrote about notebooks in Windows file servers: OneNote

re: OneNote Shared Notebooks - Options and Troubleshooting - Part 2: Notebooks On SharePoint

onenoteuser — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:14:40 GMT

It's my understanding that OneNote is supposed to automatically save and sync when the program is closed, such as when you open a new side note, type something, and then close the window.

However, my side notes are stored on a sharepoint server so I can share them between my work and home computers, but the sharepoint site is only updated if I leave the note window open or trigger a manual sync.

Sounds like a bug. Is it?

re: OneNote Shared Notebooks - Options and Troubleshooting - Part 2: Notebooks On SharePoint

John Stockton — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:37:59 GMT

I'm sure you are busy adding lots of great new features to OneNote but I was wondering if you were going to get back to this series soon? Specifically I am interested in ways to share between two computers, not on same network, without using sharepoint. Preferrably using a free online storage (SkyDrive) but using a USB stick would be OK.

Thanks in advance and I do find your posts very helpful.

re: OneNote Shared Notebooks - Options and Troubleshooting - Part 2: Notebooks On SharePoint

DavidRasmussen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:49:16 GMT

John:

Yes, I have been extraordinarily busy, but yes I intend to get back to this series. Sorry for the delay. A few things happened in the last few months. Some dramatic things at work that very substantially increased workload. Some things on the personal front too like a very bad flu that wiped me out for a couple of weeks, then my wife and two young daughters. And on the positive side after all that I took a vacation in Hawaii for ten days. But everything else got squeezed... I'll get to some "free" options for sharing between computers not on the same network, but in the meantime you should read my post about notebooks on a USB drive. That works well. http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/06/29/650705.aspx

onenoteuser:

That doesn't necessarily sound like a bug. Let me explain a little.

OneNote does not actually sync when it's not running. It's like Outlook in that sense. It doesn't do anything when it's not running i.e. when there's no OneNote window open (avoids unnecesarily using system resources etc.). The little icon in the taskbar notifications area is a separate little applet which just launches OneNote or a screen clipping, so even when you see that OneNote is not necessarily running.

However, yes OneNote does kick off a sync whenever you close it. But it has around 30 seconds to complete that sync before the OneNote shutdown process will cancel the sync and continue shutting down the application. This results in no loss of data because all of that is cached and it will just attempt to sync it next time. The reasons for this are again, for system resources, people don't like applications hanging around in the background when they've asked them to close. Generally 30 seconds is enough to sync, but there are some circumstances when syncing to http servers (SharePoint being one) when this can take a long time - e.g. slow network or server, get server time outs after up to a minute, retry, repeat etc... In that case, the sync won't complete if you quickly type a note and close the OneNote window.

re: OneNote Shared Notebooks - Options and Troubleshooting - Part 2: Notebooks On SharePoint

siobhard — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:44:33 GMT

I have a question about the table of contents in notebooks that I've centrally stored on a Sharepoint site.

I access this all the time for work and personal stuff from different machines (with different OS), but find that syncing seems to lose data, especially in the Table of Contents. I can see the pages up on the SharePoint and access them individually but they don't render in the notebooks TOC.

The good news is that Onenote is now my top application for work task tracking (surpassing Outlook, which takes some doing), but I'm getting frustrated having to fix this issue every week.

re: OneNote Shared Notebooks - Options and Troubleshooting - Part 2: Notebooks On SharePoint

rlrcstr — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:43:04 GMT

Running Vista Ultimate 64-Bit, OneNote 2007 SP1

Trying to create a shared notebook on a SharePoint server and keep getting the permissions errors. Auto-Detect is set. I verified that I have all the proper permissions on SharePoint. (I was, after all, able to create the document library without a problem.) I can upload docs tot he doc lib without issue. But I can't create a OneNote notebook. I've tried through OneNote and through SharePoint. I'm continuously prompted for credentials and then it fails.

Not sure where to go with this anymore. I see people talking about the issue, but no real solutions.