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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

Packaging and deploying custom solutions to SharePoint

Once testing and debugging are done, and the solution is ready, it’s time to deploy the custom solutions to SharePoint. The deployment requires the creation of a production-optimized solution package, which can then be uploaded to SharePoint App Catalog and deployed to sites:

  1. The first step is to create an optimized code bundle for production use by running the following:
    gulp bundle --ship

    The bundle task generates minified assets that need to be uploaded to the content delivery network (CDN). The optimized bundles are created in the temp/deploy folder in the project.

  2. The next step is to package the project code to a SharePoint Framework solution package by running the following:
    gulp package-solution --ship

    The package solution task creates a solution package file to the /sharepoint/ solution folder. The solution package, which is named by default according to the project’s name and file extension, is .sppkg...