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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

PnP site templates

PnP site templates become handy when there is a need to provision different artifacts on SharePoint sites. PnP site templates are based on the Open XML file format and the schema of the template is open source and maintained by the community. PnP site templates offer a more comprehensive approach compared to SharePoint site design and site scripts, with a wide range of capabilities.

PnP site templates can be also used for smaller-scale provisioning or automation, such as creating content types and site columns, documenting libraries with specific settings and views, or provisioning assets between SharePoint sites.

It’s also possible to create a new template for a specific SharePoint site and use it to create and configure new sites. In the next example, PnP PowerShell is combined with PnP site templates to get a site template from a site. Then, it is applied to another site:

Connect-PnPOnline –Url https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/source...