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Hands-On Microsoft Lists

By : João Ferreira, Rene Modery
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Book Image

Hands-On Microsoft Lists

5 (1)
By: João Ferreira, Rene Modery

Overview of this book

Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible and powerful platform for creating custom data models. Hands-On Microsoft Lists is an easy-to-read guide for those who want to get started with Lists, as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and want to create custom and flexible Lists that are easily available through a web interface. This comprehensive introduction to Lists will show you how to get up to speed in no time with the help of practical guidance and examples. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll understand how to use and implement Microsoft Lists effectively. You’ll start by covering all the basic concepts that will help you to build your Microsoft Lists and get the most out of the platform. As you progress, you’ll explore how to customize Microsoft Lists layouts and forms. Later chapters will guide you through integrating Microsoft Lists with the Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical scenarios that you can use daily to improve the collaboration in your organization. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have learned how to create custom data models to improve the way your data is put together, managed, and consumed in your workplace.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Building a view command set extension

View command set extensions allow you to add extra functionalities to the command bar of a list that can be executed for a single item or for the entire list, allowing you to include your business processes in Microsoft Lists.

Let's discuss the following scenario.

John wants to share lists and list items on Microsoft Teams and wants to automate the copy/paste process between both applications. John wants to implement the Share to Teams embedded button that can be used from any application to share a link to Teams. To make this new option available to all the lists in the tenant, John has decided to build a command set extension.

When you create a command set extension, you will get three default methods that are executed to create the command set:

  • onInit – This is the method where you must initialize your extension. Any code that you need to get executed before creating the command set must be defined in this function...