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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

Managing SharePoint data with cloud flows

Power Automate actions can be used to do the following:

  • Create, read, update, and delete SharePoint list items, attachments, files, and list columns in list and libraries
  • Manage permissions
  • Manage the sharing of folders, list items, and files
  • Join sites to hub sites and manage hub site join requests
  • Create approval workflows
  • Start Microsoft Syntex document processes
  • Call SharePoint’s REST APIs

Let’s quickly look at how to create a list item when a form is submitted.

Creating a list item

In this example, a flow is created to create a new list item when a form is submitted. The simple form collects the name of a new employee and their phone number, starting date, and manager. Again, the process starts by creating an automated cloud flow. This time the trigger is When a new response is submitted on the Microsoft Forms category. When working with Forms, the trigger only returns the unique...