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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

Navigation in sites

Each site has its own separate site navigation. In communication site navigation, the header area of the site can be found and is called global navigation. On team sites, navigation is placed on the left and is called a quick launch navigation. Navigation in team sites can also be changed to the header area if needed:

Figure 2.11 – Navigations in the SharePoint site

Figure 2.11 – Navigations in the SharePoint site

The site navigation is consistently visible on all pages, as well as in the list and library views on the site. The navigation links and structure are managed by site owners by using Edit link after the navigation headers.

The hub navigation is placed on top of the page on the hub and all associated sites. Owners of the hub site can manage the navigation content on the hub site.

Both navigation elements support a three-level deep hierarchy and can be styled as a fly-out menu or a megamenu. The fly-out menu displays the second-level navigation links or headers...