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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

Different site types and special sites

In the modern SharePoint experience, there are three main site types:

  • Communication site
  • Team site
  • Content center

Important note

Classic site types still exist and can be created, but these are not covered in this book.

Users can create both communication and team sites (if enabled) at the tenant level. New sites are always created underneath predefined managed paths. The managed path is either /sites/ or /teams/, depending on the site creation setting in the SharePoint Admin Center.

Communication site

Commonly, these sites are used for communicating intranet-like content, guidance, document centers, archiving, and some extranet-like cases. The focus of communication sites is to make content, documents, business processes, reports, and apps easily accessible via rich content pages. Content is organized according to pages, news articles, lists, and document libraries. Communication sites can be used for collaboration...