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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

eSignatures on SharePoint

eSignatures on SharePoint provides a simple way to share and get signatures onto documents. Currently, the service only supports signing PDF documents. The service is enabled on Syntex settings in the Microsoft 365 admin center, and it can be done after pay-as-you-go billing is activated.

Note

SharePoint’s eSignatures feature is available only in the US market at the time of writing this book. The feature will be available in other regions in 2024.

The signing process starts with a PDF document, where the user can select Get signatures. Next, the people who need to sign the document are chosen. They can be either internal users or external users. The number of signees is limited to 10.

The next step is to add signature placeholders to the documents for all signees. After that, signature requests are sent.

The signee receives the invitation to sign the document via email. The signee needs to log in with their account to get access to the...