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Onetastic Macro Documentation > Concepts > Data Types

Data Types

Following is the list of data types in macros. Properties can be of one of these data types and variables can be of one of the base types.

Base Types

Name Possible Values
Bool true, false
String Any text
Numeric Any positive or negative integral or floating point value or zero (0)
Date/Time Type of date/time related properties (e.g. createdTime, lastModifiedTime) in several objects. If converted to a string or used in a string context (as a parameter to String functions) it has the following format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z as specified here. Date/Time functions can be used to easily retrieve parts of this and convert them to user readable strings.
TimeSpan Represents a span of time. TimeSpan values can be created by TimeSpan function and can be used to add or subtract from Date/Time values using DateTime_Add and DateTime_Subtract functions.
Color Type of the color properties (e.g. fontColor, highlightColor) in several objects. Colors are stored in the canonical #rrggbb format or as automatic if no color was set (e.g. no highlightColor or the default fontColor). Color names like: black, blue, red, yellow etc. or the value automatic can be used to set or compare variables or properties of type Color. The function Color can be used to create variables of type Color. See also the possible values for color names at Color
Binary Binary data for an Image or an EmbeddedFile. Binary data can be obtained from binary store to create Image or EmbeddedFile objects. See Using binary data for more information.
Array A set of values of any base type. See Arrays.
Object A OneNote object or a dialog box.

Restricted Types

Restricted types are String types that can only have one of a set of possible values.

Selection

Description
Type of the selection property in several objects. For objects that aren't selected, it will have a value of none, while for selected objects it will have a value of all or partial depending on how much of it is selected. For instance a partially selected paragraph will have a value of partial.
Possible Values
none, partial, all

SuperSub

Description
Type of the supersub property in Text and Paragraph objects. If the text is formatted as a superscript or subscript, then it will have a value of super or sub value, otherwise it will have a value of none.
Possible Values
none, super, sub

ContentType

Description
Type of the contentType property in Paragraph objects.
Possible Values
image, table, text, ink drawing, ink writing, embedded file, embedded media, unknown

ImageFormat

Description
Type of the format property in Image objects.
Possible Values
png, jpg, emf

Alignment

Description
Type of the alignment property in Paragraph objects.
Possible Values
left, center, right

Orientation

Description
Type of the orientation property in Page objects.
Possible Values
portrait, landscape

ObjectType

Description
Type of a OneNote object.
Possible Values
NotebookRoot, Notebook, SectionGroup, Section, Page, Title, Outline, Table, Column, Row, Cell, Paragraph, Text, Image, EmbeddedFile

ParagraphStyle

Description
Type of the style property in Paragraph objects.
Possible Values
p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, PageTitle, cite, blockquote, code

DateTimePickerType

Description
Type of a Date/Time picker control in a DialogBox.
Possible Values
date, time, datetime

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