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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

Summary

With this chapter, we learned how SharePoint is a versatile communication and collaboration platform for organizations to manage their content, information, and business processes. SharePoint is one of the core technologies in the Microsoft 365 cloud service, integrating and providing experiences for other services. As a content platform, SharePoint hosts rich content pages, which can combine content with other Microsoft 365 services, such as Forms questionnaires or videos, and include Power Apps and Power BI reports without users needing to navigate away from the page.

SharePoint Online is also an application platform that enables extending and customizing SharePoint using modern web development technologies. The SPFx development model supplies capabilities for creating apps for other Teams, Outlook, and Viva Connections services, and these applications do not require a separate hosting environment. Developers can choose their development tools; open source tooling is 100...