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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

Adding an app

You can extend the functionality of your SharePoint site by adding apps to it. Just like the apps on a mobile device, SharePoint apps are ready-to-use standalone widgets or applications that help address specific business needs. You can add apps that your organization might have developed in-house, or you can add apps from the SharePoint Store.

In this recipe, we will learn how to add an app from the SharePoint Store.

Getting ready

You need to have Owner or Full Control access to the site you would like to add the app to.

How to do it...

To add an app from the SharePoint Store, follow these steps:

  1. Browse to the home page of your site.
  2. Click New from the page editing menu and then click App, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.23: Menu navigation for adding an app

  1. Doing so will take you to the Apps you can add screen of the My apps page. Here, you can view a list of apps that your organization has...