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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

What are SharePoint list templates?

List templates are a way to create consistent lists for unique needs. Microsoft provides several ready-made list templates for most common use cases and can be used when you’re creating lists on SharePoint sites, Teams channels, or the Microsoft Lists app:

Figure 14.9 - Microsoft-provided list templates

Figure 14.9 - Microsoft-provided list templates

Organizations can also create and publish their own list templates. The basic idea of list templates is the same as in site templates. List columns, content types, views, and so on are defined in a similar JSON script and schema as site scripts. For a list template, only one script is linked since it holds the whole list definition.

Creating a list template

Creating a list template starts by creating and configuring a list, which is then used as a template. The next step is to extract the script from the created list using the Get-SPOSiteScriptFromList cmdlet:

$extractedList = Get-SPOSiteScriptFromList...