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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

Everything is a list or a library

When exploring how content is stored in SharePoint, it’s quite clear that content on SharePoint sites is stored either in a list or a library. The main difference between these two is that a library always stores a document or a file as a list item and a list stores just list items. However, lists can also have files attached to list items. Both types can have metadata fields, which are used as properties to describe a list item or a document. Metadata can be, for example, the person who added a list item, description, choice, or number. In SharePoint, term lists or site columns are used. The difference between these column types is that list columns are only available and managed on the list or library specified, and site columns are available for all lists and libraries on a SharePoint site. Content from both can be surfaced using list views or different aggregation components and can be rendered as an HTML page or via APIs in line-of-business...