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Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online

By : Matti Paukkonen
Book Image

Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online

By: Matti Paukkonen

Overview of this book

Explore the robust functionalities of SharePoint that ensure your business processes remain flexible and scalable. With its custom development features, SharePoint presents abundant opportunities to meet evolving needs, deliver personalized experiences, and seamlessly integrate across platforms. If you’re looking for practical guidance on developing custom SharePoint solutions, Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online is your essential companion. This book takes you through the different techniques for customizing SharePoint, harnessing its native capabilities, and extending them across other platforms. You’ll begin by organizing content with SharePoint sites and learning best practices for permission governance before learning how to create and manage pages and use web parts to create, aggregate, and format content. This SharePoint book also covers specialized use cases of the Viva Suite and delves into SharePoint automation with Power Automate while extending solutions with Power Apps. Toward the end, you’ll get to grips with designing personalized solutions with SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to deliver highly customized SharePoint solutions that align with your business objectives.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Exploring SharePoint Online
8
Part 2:Enhancing the SharePoint Content
14
Part 3:Automate and Extend SharePoint Experiences
19
Part 4:Create Your Own Customization using SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph

Managed Metadata

Managed metadata on SharePoint online provides a formal and controlled way to classify content using hierarchical collections of terms, grouped by term sets, which can be used as metadata and keywords on SharePoint content. Centrally managed metadata ensures consistency across SharePoint sites and helps with the discoverability, sorting, and filtering of content using search. Enabling the Enterprise keywords feature on the library or list level provides a simple way to consume managed metadata terms. Another way is to create a managed metadata column and attach a term set to it on the list or library level.

A term set is a collection of terms, for example, products, which can either be a flat list hierarchy or be a maximum of seven levels deep. Term sets can either be controlled and centrally authored taxonomies or act as a folksonomy where users can add new terms.

Term sets can be published either from the central term store in the SharePoint admin center or...