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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

Bringing custom elements and scripts to pages with application customizers

Application customizers offer a mechanism to load and run custom scripts and add custom HTML elements and content to two defined placeholders on the SharePoint page’s HTML DOM (Document Object Model). Placeholders for custom HTML are found at the top and bottom of the page (Figure 19.1):

Figure 19.1 - Top and bottom placeholders

Figure 19.1 - Top and bottom placeholders

The layout and styles of these placeholders can include custom styles, layouts, and even fonts, but it’s a good practice to refer to SharePoint Framework’s documentation and utilize Office UI Fabric, which is a premade set of controls and styles, when possible.

Note

Using Application Customizers to modify SharePoint’s HTML DOM is not a supported method for customizing modern SharePoint. Changes made to the page HTML DOM may cause issues with the customization.

Building an application customizer

You can create a project...