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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

Automate SharePoint with Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful workflow engine that can automate repetitive tasks, build approval workflows, manage and transfer data, and build notifications and reminders. Power Automate includes triggers and actions for SharePoint Online – for example, starting a workflow when a new document is added to the document library or updating document metadata when certain criteria are met.

Power Automate belongs to the Power Platform product family, including Power Apps, Power Pages, Power BI, and Power Virtual Assistants. Power Platform is commonly stated as a low-code platform or platform for citizen developers to build solutions. Some products, such as Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents, are included in Microsoft 365 user licenses with limited features and access to data.

Users can use Power Automate to build their own automation including SharePoint – for example, building a simple notification flow...