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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 offers tools for content management, communication, process automation, and report creation. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook maximizes workplace collaboration and productivity using SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Delve, M365 Search, Copilot, Power Platform, Viva, Planner, and Microsoft Forms. You will find thoroughly updated recipes for SharePoint Online, covering sites, lists, libraries, pages, web parts, and learn SharePoint Framework (SPFx) basics for building solutions. You will explore many Microsoft Teams recipes to prepare it to be your organization’s central collaboration hub. You will be able to unlock Power Platform potential with recipes for Power Apps to enable low-code/no-code app development and learn to automate tasks with Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop. The book teaches you data visualization with Power BI, and chatbot creation with Power Virtual Agents (Copilot Studio). Finally, you will also learn about the cutting-edge Copilot and Gen AI functionality in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. By the end, you will be equipped with skills to effectively use Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and the Power Platform. Whether it's enhancing career prospects or improving business operations, this book is a perfect companion on your journey through the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Building your first SPFx web part

The modern experience in SharePoint provides you with several widgets or web parts that you can add to improve the experience. Shown here is a screenshot of all the components (client web parts) that you can add on a modern SharePoint page:

Figure 6: SharePoint client webparts

While these web parts offer most of what you need to display on a page, sometimes you need to develop custom functionality. In the past, there were several ways you could do this, but nowadays, the SharePoint framework is your best bet. One good thing about building web parts using SPFx is that you get to use the same framework that Microsoft uses to build the out-of-the-box web parts displayed in the preceding screenshot. This means that you get the same benefits, such as responsive behavior and mobile readiness.

SPFx web parts are compatible with both classic and modern pages.

The project is available for download at https://m365book.page.link/SPFx.

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