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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 an app platform

Extending and customizing SharePoint has also evolved. With on-premises SharePoint versions, customizations were commonly made by modifying master pages and page layouts with SharePoint Designer or another HTML editor, running server-side C# code hooked into different events or loaded as a control during page load, or even creating customized APIs for accessing data. Development environments were heavy, consumed a lot of RAM, and required a local installation of SharePoint Server, which also required other services such as a Microsoft SQL database engine. The client-side implementation was quite commonly made by loading JavaScript using Script Editor web parts or injecting code directly to master pages or page layouts.

Since SharePoint Online is a SaaS offering, and actual servers are managed by Microsoft, there aren’t possibilities to run custom server-side code as in SharePoint Server environments hosted in customers’ data centers...