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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

Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Lists is a separate application in Microsoft 365 for creating and accessing SharePoint lists found on users’ personal OneDrive for Business or on SharePoint sites. Opening a list with Microsoft Lists focuses only on the specific list; for example, SharePoint site content elements are not available:

Figure 4.25 - Microsoft Lists

Figure 4.25 - Microsoft Lists

When opening the application, recently accessed lists and users’ favorite lists are shown. Lists can be set as favorites by clicking a small star icon in the top-right corner of the list icon.

Creating a new list is basically the same as in SharePoint sites. It’s possible to pick predefined templates, create a blank list, or import from an Excel or CSV file. The biggest difference is that it is possible to pick a location for the list either from recently accessed sites or by creating a list in users’ personal OneDrive. Administrators can control the creation of lists in users...