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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 Modern Search

PnP Modern Search is an open source and community-maintained solution that includes a set of SharePoint web parts to build search-driven solutions.

The solution includes separate web parts for search results, search filtering, search verticals, and a search box. Web parts can be used on any modern SharePoint page. Web parts can be used and connected to build a comprehensive search solution. You can use just results and a search box to create a simple search center or you can use just the Search Results web part with predefined queries to create a customized roll-up for specific content with a customizable layout. The solution can use SharePoint’s search engine and Microsoft search capabilities using Microsoft Graph API.

Since the solution is completely open source, the source code can be downloaded from the GitHub repository and the solution can be built and packaged using Gulp. It’s also possible to start building a separate solution based on...