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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

Customizing and personalizing the Viva dashboard

The Viva dashboard is one content area that needs constant care when Viva Connections is deployed. Current out-of-the-box features offer a few dashboard cards that personalize based on the user, such as Top New, Assigned Tasks, and Viva Learning content. Dashboard authors can design cards using a web links card, a Teams apps card, or a card designer to design more functional cards. There are also third-party applications for the Viva dashboard available on the SharePoint Store.

Figure 10.9 - Dashboard cards

Figure 10.9 - Dashboard cards

The dashboard content can be customized from SharePoint or the Viva Connections app on Teams. The dashboard is hosted on a specific page, called dashboard.aspx, within the Site Pages library on the site to which Viva Connections is connected. On Teams, the dashboard can be edited directly from the Viva Connections home experience. When using multiple experiences, it’s recommended to customize the...