Alternate way of sending email from Outlook to OneNote - vba

Question

I've scoured the internet to find an answer, but was unable to find an answer. Here is my problem:
My organisation has a size limitation in Outlook 2013 inbox size. As such, we have had to come up with possible solutions to saving these emails in a comprehesive way which is easy to manage and easy to find way.
I've heard that we could possibly automatically send our emails directly to OneNote 2013. I've used the "send to OneNote" button in Outlook, however I was wondering if anyone has any better solution that could automatically create a section named the email sender's name if it does not exist and copy the email to a new page.
The only VBA code I have found in my searches is to either create a OneNote page or search, however my very limited knowledge in XML does not allow me to go further.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here is some of the code I've found:
Option Explicit
Sub CreateNewPage()
' Connect to OneNote 2010.
' To see the results of the code,
' you'll want to ensure the OneNote 2010 user
' interface is visible.
Dim OneNote As OneNote.Application
Set OneNote = New OneNote.Application
' Get all of the Notebook nodes.
Dim nodes As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNodeList
Set nodes = GetFirstOneNoteNotebookNodes(OneNote)
If Not nodes Is Nothing Then
' Get the first OneNote Notebook in the XML document.
Dim node As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
Set node = nodes(2)
Dim noteBookName As String
noteBookName = node.Attributes.getNamedItem("name").Text
' Get the ID for the Notebook so the code can retrieve
' the list of sections.
Dim notebookID As String
notebookID = node.Attributes.getNamedItem("ID").Text
' Load the XML for the Sections for the Notebook requested.
Dim sectionsXml As String
OneNote.GetHierarchy notebookID, hsSections, sectionsXml, xs2013
' Dim a As MSXML2.DOMDocument60
Dim secDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60
Set secDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60
If secDoc.LoadXML(sectionsXml) Then
' select the Section nodes
Dim secNodes As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNodeList
Debug.Print secDoc.DocumentElement.XML
Dim soapNS
soapNS = "xmlns:one='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/onenote/2013/onenote'"
secDoc.SetProperty "SelectionNamespaces", soapNS
Set secNodes = secDoc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//one:Section")
If Not secNodes Is Nothing Then
' Get the first section.
Dim secNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
Set secNode = secNodes(0)
Dim sectionName As String
sectionName = secNode.Attributes.getNamedItem("name").Text
Dim sectionID As String
sectionID = secNode.Attributes.getNamedItem("ID").Text
' Create a new blank Page in the first Section
' using the default format.
Dim newPageID As String
OneNote.CreateNewPage sectionID, newPageID, npsDefault
' Get the contents of the page.
Dim outXML As String
OneNote.GetPageContent newPageID, outXML, piAll, xs2013
Dim doc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60
Set doc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60
' Load Page's XML into a MSXML2.DOMDocument object.
If doc.LoadXML(outXML) Then
' Get Page Node.
Dim pageNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
soapNS = "xmlns:one='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/onenote/2013/onenote'"
doc.SetProperty "SelectionNamespaces", soapNS
Set pageNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//one:Page")
' Find the Title element.
Dim titleNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
Set titleNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//one:Page/one:Title/one:OE/one:T")
' Get the CDataSection where OneNote store's the Title's text.
Dim cdataChild As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
Set cdataChild = titleNode.SelectSingleNode("text()")
' Change the title in the local XML copy.
cdataChild.Text = "A Page Created from VBA"
' Write the update to OneNote.
OneNote.UpdatePageContent doc.XML
Dim newElement As MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement
Dim newNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
' Create Outline node.
Set newElement = doc.createElement("one:Outline")
Set newNode = pageNode.appendChild(newElement)
' Create OEChildren.
Set newElement = doc.createElement("one:OEChildren")
Set newNode = newNode.appendChild(newElement)
' Create OE.
Set newElement = doc.createElement("one:OE")
Set newNode = newNode.appendChild(newElement)
' Create TE.
Set newElement = doc.createElement("one:T")
Set newNode = newNode.appendChild(newElement)
' Add the text for the Page's content.
Dim cd As MSXML2.IXMLDOMCDATASection
Set cd = doc.createCDATASection("Is this what I need to change?")
newNode.appendChild cd
' Update OneNote with the new content.
OneNote.UpdatePageContent doc.XML
' Print out information about the update.
Debug.Print "A new page was created in "
Debug.Print "Section " & sectionName & " in"
Debug.Print "Notebook " & noteBookName & "."
Debug.Print "Contents of new Page:"
Debug.Print doc.XML
End If
Else
MsgBox "OneNote 2010 Section nodes not found."
End If
Else
MsgBox "OneNote 2010 Section XML Data failed to load."
End If
Else
MsgBox "OneNote 2010 XML Data failed to load."
End If
End Sub
Private Function GetAttributeValueFromNode(node As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode, attributeName As String) As String
If node.Attributes.getNamedItem(attributeName) Is Nothing Then
GetAttributeValueFromNode = "Not found."
Else
GetAttributeValueFromNode = node.Attributes.getNamedItem(attributeName).Text
End If
End Function
Private Function GetFirstOneNoteNotebookNodes(OneNote As OneNote.Application) As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNodeList
' Get the XML that represents the OneNote notebooks available.
Dim notebookXml As String
' OneNote fills notebookXml with an XML document providing information
' about what OneNote notebooks are available.
' You want all the data and thus are providing an empty string
' for the bstrStartNodeID parameter.
OneNote.GetHierarchy "", hsNotebooks, notebookXml, xs2013
' Use the MSXML Library to parse the XML.
Dim doc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60
Set doc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60
If doc.LoadXML(notebookXml) Then
Dim soapNS
soapNS = "xmlns:one='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/onenote/2013/onenote'"
doc.SetProperty "SelectionNamespaces", soapNS
Set GetFirstOneNoteNotebookNodes = doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//one:Notebook")
Debug.Print doc.DocumentElement.XML
Else
Set GetFirstOneNoteNotebookNodes = Nothing
End If
End Function
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Are you using OneDrive for Business? If so, these Microsoft Flow templates might be very useful: https://ms.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/services/shared_onenote/onenote-business/. In particular, one is for sending important e-mails to OneNote. You can also create your own flow that has different triggers, and specify the name of the page/section you want to create.
Here is an example flow:
Note the "Add Dynamic Content" button. This allows you to specify the name and content of the section.
If you're not using O365, you might be able to use the Microsoft Graph API and the OneNote REST API together to achieve what you want. There aren't VBA examples but there are many others.