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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

Creating actionable links using formatting

Custom row actions can be used to start Power Automate cloud flows, add actions to custom layouts and update multiple column values.

Starting cloud flows

A button to start a cloud flow can be added using column formatting. The cloud flow to be used needs to be first connected to the list or library. The cloud flow is linked to the button using executeFlow action. ActionParams must include the id of the cloud flow, which can be copied from the browser’s address line when the cloud flow is opened in edit mode. Title and run button texts visible on the flow panel can be defined in the actionParams using headerText and runFlowButtonText properties.

{ "$schema": https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json,
"elmType": "button", "customRowAction": {
"action": "executeFlow",
"actionParams": "{\"id\": \"510e9047...