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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

Organize and categorize sites with hub sites

A hub site serves as a central point for connecting related sites together, providing common context for news, content pages, and search, and providing consistent navigation and themes across sites. A hub site can be registered for a specific function, such as human resources or for a department or region, as well as, for example, creating a hub for all project sites. The most important thing is that the hub site and connected sites share a common context and that it’s clear to the users. Nowadays, it’s quite common to register an intranet landing site as a hub and other sites with it.

Important note

The maximum number of hub sites is 100 per Microsoft 365 tenant. In the hub site settings, hub owners can pick a logo for the hub and change the hub name and then the name will be visible on the navigation. Owners can select a site template, which is applied to a site associated with the hub. More about site templates can...