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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)

Modern and classic list features

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Microsoft Lists, SharePoint had a major update in 2016 when Microsoft introduced the modern experience in SharePoint. Despite having been released in 2016, the modern experience rollout is not yet complete and there are areas of the product that still only exist in the classic version, even though Microsoft Lists has been introduced as a modern application.

Note

Microsoft Lists features that are available in the modern and classic versions are shown and explained in the modern layout within this book. The classic experience will gradually disappear, and we believe that you will take more advantage of the system if you use it exclusively in the modern experience. All the features that are only available in the classic experience and are still relevant will be highlighted within the text.

The easiest way to access the classic options of a list is by opening the list settings page. To do that, you...