Book Image

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

App Catalog in SharePoint

The tenant-wide App Catalog can be accessed from the SharePoint admin center by opening More features and selecting Apps. The SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator role is needed for the user to manage apps, App Catalog, and SharePoint Store-specific settings. To manage API access, which enables apps to use the Graph API and other Microsoft APIs, only the Global Administrator role is supported:

Figure 11.1 - App Catalog

Figure 11.1 - App Catalog

All deployed apps are listed on the Manage apps page, which opens by default when accessing App Catalog. Administrators can see the basic details of apps, which platform the apps are available for, and whether apps can be used. The supported platforms for apps are SharePoint, Teams, and Viva Connections Dashboard.

On the left-hand side, administrators can access app requests, go to the SharePoint Store, and open the API access management page. From More features, administrators can access tenant-wide...