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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

Introduction to SharePoint Framework

SharePoint Framework, commonly known as SPFx, was first introduced in May 2016 alongside the modern SharePoint Online. SharePoint Framework is a modern, client-side web development platform for developing applications and extending SharePoint Online, but also Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 apps (Office). On-premises versions of SharePoint are also supported, but not covered in this book. Applications and extensions developed with SPFx are run on the browser and can have access to different REST APIs, such as SharePoint REST API or Microsoft Graph, which is a unified REST API for accessing Microsoft Cloud.

SharePoint Framework supports modern development tools and JavaScript development frameworks, such as React, Handlebars, and Vue.js. Developer tools are based on open-source client-side development tools such as NPM (Node Package Manager), TypeScript, and Yeoman. The development environment doesn’t require...