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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

Use cases for SharePoint Framework

SharePoint Framework web parts enable organizations to bring data to SharePoint pages from external systems. An example might be retrieving an organization’s public news from their website using RSS feeds or connecting the web part to an HR system and displaying a personal dashboard to users based on their identity, such as available holidays, employment details, and actions. Web parts are also useful when a page structure needs to be customized, such as creating tab content or creating a table of contents for the page.

List View Command Set Extensions could be used to extend document management capabilities in SharePoint document libraries, such as creating a custom archiving solution or calling an organization’s custom AI model to analyze the content of the document.

Adaptive card extension enables the customization of Viva Connection Home Experience. It can be used to create custom dashboard cards for frontline users, which...