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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
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Part 1:Exploring SharePoint Online
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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

Limitations and delegation

When working with SharePoint lists and libraries with Power Apps, as well as with other data sources, it’s important to understand the limitations. By default, Power Apps returns the first 500 data rows from the data source. This limit can be increased to 2,000. Bringing 2,000 items from a SharePoint list to an application might not be generally a good idea. One key target to build efficient applications is to minimize the data retrieved and only bring data that is needed for the application.

For handling larger datasets, Power Apps utilizes a feature called delegation. Delegation moves data processing to the data source – for example, filtering the returned dataset to include rows created within two weeks or sorting rows alphabetically by title. Not all connectors and operations support delegation, and it’s always important to refer to the data connector’s documentation.

SharePoint also supports delegation when used as a...