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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions. By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Viewing and changing list settings

SharePoint lets you view and change a variety of settings for your list.

In this recipe, we will use the Marketing Announcements list that we created earlier to add validation rules for the information that users can add to your list. We will add validation rules to ensure the following:

  • The Announcement Start Date value is greater than the current date
  • The Expires date entered by the users is greater than the Announcement Start Date value

Getting ready

You will need Edit, Design, or Full Control access permissions to the list for which you'd like to view or change settings.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to the list for which you would like to view or change the settings.
  2. Click the settings gear icon in the top-right corner.
  3. Click List settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

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