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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

SharePoint Framework web parts

A web part is the most common way to customize modern SharePoint Online. It’s a reusable component that can be added to pages, and it can show data from SharePoint or external sources using APIs. It can also be a user interface for a list in SharePoint Online or it can manage data living in an external system. Web parts developed using the SharePoint Framework support both modern and classic SharePoint pages.

A web part’s code is a client-side JavaScript code, which is executed within the user’s browser. Development can be made using plain JavaScript or by using common web frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.

Creating and deploying a web part

Let’s create a SharePoint Framework web part project for managing the Human Resources onboarding list on SharePoint. The web part should display assigned items from the list and use Microsoft’s Employee Onboarding list as a template and data storage.

An environment...