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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

Controlling access with groups

SharePoint Online enables permission management via SharePoint groups and security-enabled groups on AAD. SharePoint groups are created at the site level, so each site has individual groups. By default, three groups are created automatically for each site.

SharePoint Online enables permission management using SharePoint and AAD groups. SharePoint groups are created at the site level, so each site has dedicated SharePoint groups. By default, three groups are created automatically for each site:

  • Site owners: They have full control over the site, settings, content, and navigation
  • Site members: They have editing capabilities for lists and libraries, pages, list items, and documents
  • Site visitors: They have read-only access to content

In the modern experience, these groups are automatically mapped to the sharing experience permission levels on communication sites. On group-connected team sites, Microsoft 365 group members and owners...