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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

Site, List, and Document Templates

Sometimes, creating consistent sites with preset settings, lists, site columns, and content types might be required, such as when you’re creating sites to manage projects. SharePoint Online provides an out-of-the-box way to create reusable templates for sites. A site template consists of one or more site scripts, which are a set of instructions for creating assets (such as site columns or lists), managing site permissions, and settings (such as external access).

As we have already learned, lists are very useful in SharePoint for storing data. With list templates, these useful lists can be made reusable on different sites.

Distribution of Office document templates to be used in Office applications is possible using SharePoint’s document libraries. Templates are centrally managed and they are available for users when creating a new Office document on Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the...