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SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By : Patrick Tucker
Book Image

SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By: Patrick Tucker

Overview of this book

After opening a toolbox full of tools, it can initially be hard to know which is the right one for the job – which tool works best and when. Showing you how to create an informed and purposeful plan for SharePoint Online in the context of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools is what this book is all about. SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide will help you understand all you can do with SharePoint. Whether the tools are new to you or you’ve used the older versions in the past, your journey will start by learning about the building blocks. This book is not a step-by-step guide; there are tons of online resources to give you that and to help you better keep up with the pace of change. This book is a planning guide, helping you with the context, capabilities, and considerations for implementing SharePoint Online in the most successful way possible. Whether you need to plan a new intranet, migrate files to a modern platform, or take advantage of tools such as Power Platform, Teams, and Planner, this guide will help you get to grips with the technology, ask the right questions to build your plan, and successfully implement it from the technical and user adoption perspectives. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll be able to perceive the toolbox as a whole and efficiently prepare a planning and governance document for use in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1:From Farm to Cloud
5
Part 2:From Lone Wolf to Pack Leader – SPO Integrations with M365
9
Part 3:From Tall to Flat – SPO Information Architecture
13
Part 4:From Current to Change

Formatting lists and adaptive cards with JSON

Lists and libraries in SharePoint have long been akin to an Excel spreadsheet with information being displayed in rows and columns. Part of the built-in functionality allows us to sort, filter, and group data, but often, how the rows are displayed can be quite bland. It’s not so much about making the list pretty as it is about adding visual interest to make the data easier to understand and consume.

In SharePoint Online, we can leverage JSON syntax and a formatting schema that can be defined and read by SharePoint. This format may apply to columns or list views with color-coding, layouts, and events such as button clicks or hover effects. Microsoft provides a handful of built-in options we can choose from to apply formatting. Alternatively, we can add the JSON text in Advanced mode to add our custom formatting.

Now, let’s learn how to use this approach to format the look of a single column – that is, an entire...