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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 field customizer extension

Field customizer extensions allow you to customize columns beyond what the JSON and HTML allow you to do with the column formatting. With the use of SPFx, you will be able to format the columns using custom HTML structures, which are not supported by the column formatting. Or, you could go even further and use external APIs to transform the data in your columns.

Let's discuss the following scenario.

John has built a list where he manages all the company offices worldwide. Besides having the typical information that defines an office such as the address, John wanted to go a step further and display the temperature for the city where the office is located, with the temperature being displayed in real time.

To achieve this, John has created a field customizer extension that gets the weather for a specific city using an external API, which is shown as follows:

Figure 11.3 – Offices list

Figure 11.3 – Offices list

When you create...