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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

Working with SharePoint’s REST APIs

Power Automate includes the most common function for handling content in SharePoint using pre-made and easily configurable actions, but sometimes it might be needed to automate more advanced scenarios, such as creating sites or managing site-level permissions. These can be achieved using SharePoint’s REST APIs or the Microsoft Graph API, which is a unified RESTful API for accessing Microsoft 365 cloud services.

SharePoint REST APIs can be called using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. The action takes a site address, HTTP method, and the API’s URI as a parameter for making the call to the correct API. Headers and Body are needed depending on the API called. For example, creating a new modern communication site is configured as in Figure 13.20.

Figure 12.20 - Creating a site with an HTTP call to SharePoint

Figure 12.20 - Creating a site with an HTTP call to SharePoint

In the preceding example, the API call is made against the tenant’s root...