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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

Access Controls in SharePoint

SharePoint Online provides granular options for controlling access to sites and content. There are 33 individual permissions, such as Add Items and Manage permissions, in total. In modern experiences, a list of different permission sets is mapped to five default permission roles – Full Control, Design, Edit, Contribute, and Read. These permission levels are then mapped to three default site permission groups.

Access to this content can be granted at different hierarchical tiers, including the site level, list or library level, folder level, and item or document level. Permission can be given through a group membership or directly to the user. By default, permissions are inherited from the site level to all lists and libraries, folders, items, and documents in that specific site. When permissions are changed, such as on a specific folder, permission inheritance continues to folders and items underneath that specific folder. Permission inheritance...