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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

Lists and Libraries

As we learned in Chapter 2, sites are key elements for organizing and structuring content. SharePoint lists and libraries are also important since the content is stored in either a list or a library.

A list can be as simple as storing a list of items with just a title to a comprehensive database of dozens of site columns, attachments, and workflows. Likewise, a library can be a list of documents or a large document repository with dozens of site columns, content types, folder structures, and versioning policies.

The main difference between lists and a library is that, in a library, an item is always a document at the same time. Lists can also have files as an attachment – in fact, multiple if needed – but these are not required for list items. Attachments can be added and removed on the edit form of the item. Both lists and libraries are versatile and simple to extend using simple browser tools and advanced view and column formats.

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