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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

Getting third-party apps from the SharePoint Store

The SharePoint Store is a public marketplace for third-party apps for Microsoft 365, as well as Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s cloud platform for customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), finance-related operations, and Power Platform. The SharePoint Store is enabled by default for users to get and request apps. Users can access and browse the SharePoint Store directly from sites:

Figure 11.7 - The SharePoint Store

Figure 11.7 - The SharePoint Store

Administrators can control the SharePoint Store’s settings on the tenant-wide app catalog by going to the Configure store settings page via the More features page. When the App purchases setting is set to No, users can still browse and request apps from the SharePoint Store.

App requests

Users can send app requests from the SharePoint Store underneath a specific app:

Figure 11.8 - Requesting an app

Figure 11.8 - Requesting an app

When a user sends...