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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

Extend SharePoint with Power Apps

Power Apps is a low-code application platform that allows users to create custom applications for their business requirements. Power Apps is commonly called a citizen-developer platform because of its simplicity, but it still offers various capabilities for building business solutions and accessing business data in various data storages, such as SQL databases or the Microsoft Dataverse platform. It is also a part of the Power Platform product family, which includes Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents.

Power Apps can also be used to extend SharePoint, connect and manage data in SharePoint lists and libraries, and create apps that can be surfaced within SharePoint content. Power Apps are one option to extend SharePoint’s list of forms for creating more visual and functional form experiences. A list form created with Power Apps supports all logic operations as with canvas apps, and the editor used is the same.

Power Apps is...