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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

Power Apps and SharePoint

Power Apps offers an effortless way to extend SharePoint’s user experiences and create applications. Sometimes, the default list form functionality is not adequate; for example, it may require custom logic enabling column editing or more complex formulas for generating data that SharePoint offers. With Power Apps, a list form experience can be created as an application – for example, creating a form that allows modifying only specific list column values or filling column values automatically based on data in other Microsoft 365 services or within SharePoint. Another possibility is to create a complete application that uses SharePoint’s lists or libraries as a data source but the application’s business logic and behavior are built with Power Apps capabilities and formulas.

SharePoint also enables publishing Power Apps apps within modern SharePoint pages, so organizations can also offer important business applications within their...