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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

Connecting hub sites

Hub sites can be associated with a parent hub site to create a wider search context across multiple hub sites. This could be used to create, for example, a regional hub for regionally named hub sites or create a hub for certain functions to gather content from a regional function’s hub sites. Hub site associations also support multi-layered hub site structures.

Search and content roll-up web parts support three-level hub associations, so it’s not reasonable when creating deeper hub associations. Information architecture planning is crucial with associated hubs. In the search results, each association level is displayed in the breadcrumb.

Links to the parent hub and associated child hubs can be added to the navigation with Associated hubs and Associated child hubs options in the navigation settings:

Figure 2.10 – Connected hub site navigation links

Figure 2.10 – Connected hub site navigation links

Navigation links are not automatically updated when hub associations...