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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

Managing access to content

In the modern SharePoint experience, there are three different roles by default:

  • Site owners: Site owners have full control over the site and can manage content, settings, permissions, and applications
  • Site members: Site members have edit permissions, allowing them to manage lists and libraries, list items, and documents
  • Site visitors: Site visitors only have read access to the site

These roles are mapped to SharePoint groups, which are named after the site’s title and respective access level – for example, “HR Team Owners,” “HR Team Members,” and “HR Team Visitors.”

Site permissions

Regarding communication sites and team sites, which are not connected to Microsoft 365 groups, permissions are granted using the sharing dialogue. This dialogue can be opened using the Share button at the top right-hand corner of the page or from the site’s Permissions panel, which can...