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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

How to use Microsoft Graph Explorer to call the API

Microsoft Graph Explorer is a browser-based tool that can be used to call Graph API resources. Explorer is extremely useful when developing solutions calling the Graph API, testing API queries, exploring how the Microsoft Graph API works, and also doing real-life changes and configuration. The tool itself can be found at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer.

Figure 17.1 - Graph Explorer

Figure 17.1 - Graph Explorer

Graph Explorer can be used to investigate imaginary demo data, which includes a small set of calls, but the real value of the tool comes when connected to the real Microsoft 365 environment. When testing, the free Microsoft 365 development environment, which can be created by joining the Microsoft 365 Developer Program (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program), comes in very handy. It’s also possible to sign in and connect to the production-grade environment. Almost...