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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

New Power Automate designer

At the time of writing this book, Microsoft Power Automate designer tools have been updated. Already created automations are still using the earlier designer experience, as seen in the illustrations of this chapter.

In the new designer experience, the authoring canvas can be moved and zoomed more freely. Actions are added and configured on the left side panel.

Figure 12.21 - Actions on the left side panel

Figure 12.21 - Actions on the left side panel

The new designer also introduces Copilot, an AI assistant, which can be used to create and edit cloud flows using natural language.

Figure 12.22 - Copilot for cloud flows

Figure 12.22 - Copilot for cloud flows

For example, the cloud flow in Figure 12.22 is created using Copilot with the prompt Create a flow for page approval in SharePoint. Copilot creates a good starting point for development, but parameters might be missing, or some logic might not be working correctly, so it’s always important to check the cloud flow and...