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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

Describing Content with Site Columns and Content Types

When managing large quantities of content, such as thousands of rows of data or tens of thousands of documents, metadata plays an important part in describing, sorting, and processing the content. In SharePoint, metadata is maintained in list or site columns, which can be added to lists and libraries. List columns are maintained at the list or library level. Site columns are reusable and available for all lists and libraries on a SharePoint site. A column can be, for example, a line of text, a number, a user or a group, or a centrally managed metadata term.

Different types of data in the same document library may require a different set of site columns, which is where content types come into play. A content type groups selected site columns together. In document libraries, a content type can also link to a document template, which is used when a new document is created with that specific content type.

Columns and content...