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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how Viva Connections can be used to make content from SharePoint available on Microsoft Teams. First, we’re introduced to the building blocks of Viva Connections, how Viva Connections is configured, and how organizations can create multiple Viva Connections experiences.

Next, we learned how the Viva Connections feed is generated, what content is displayed to users, and how authors can bring content to the feed.

The next section focused on the Viva Connections dashboard, and how to create content for the dashboard, target the cards, and translate the dashboard.

Finally, we delved into how Viva Connections is published to the left rail menu of Microsoft Teams for users.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to bring customized applications and third-party applications to SharePoint with SharePoint’s app catalog and the SharePoint Store.