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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

Creating multilingual content with SharePoint

Modern SharePoint supports multilingual content and user experience. By default, user interface functionality, such as menus, library names, and command buttons, is translated into either being based on the user’s preferred language on the user’s profile, and if these are not set, then it is based on the user’s browser language. Site owners can choose the available languages on the site’s advanced language settings. Note that a site’s primary language is chosen when a site is created, and it cannot be changed afterward.

Owners can enable the translation of content into multiple languages and assign translators, either persons or groups, for each language, who will be notified when the default language content is updated:

Figure 2.12 – Language and translation settings

Figure 2.12 – Language and translation settings

Enabling translation into multiple languages allows for the translation of the site name, navigation...