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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

SharePoint Online as a platform for portals and teamwork

SharePoint is a platform for an organization’s news, guidance, policies, videos, and important links – commonly the intranet. SharePoint’s rich content pages are used for bringing text, images, documents, and videos together in an easily accessible format using any device. Rich document views and a native video player reduce the need for the user to jump back and forth between content. Native web parts enable adding questionnaires or surveys using Microsoft Forms or creating small apps with Power Apps to rich content pages, again improving the user experience.

Lists and libraries are core building blocks of storing data in SharePoint and can be used in various solutions. A SharePoint list itself can be a small application, extended with views and workflows. A document library is a place for documents, but when adding an approval workflow, it already transforms into a document management solution. Transforming...