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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

How to curate SharePoint content for the Viva Connections feed

The curation of the Viva Connections feed is automatic. It displays content published in specific locations and based on the user’s choice. News articles are displayed from several personalized locations:

  • Sites configured as organizational news sites
  • Sites that the user is following and has recently visited
  • Boosted news and audience-targeted news on organizational news sites
  • News relevant to the user based on their interests

From Viva Engage, which is a Viva product for building communities and internal social media, the feed displays the following:

  • Posts and announcements from the All Company feed
  • Posts, Q&As, praises, and announcements on communities the user is following
  • Storyline posts

All videos shared to the entire organization from SharePoint and OneDrive are displayed on the feed.

The content ranking of the feed is based on several factors such as content...