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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

Site columns

SharePoint site columns can be thought of as reusable metadata for list items and documents that can be added to multiple lists and libraries. Site columns can be used to describe, group, sort, and filter items and documents. They can be used in search queries, templates, and refining and sorting search results. Site columns can be created at the site level. Columns created on the site level are reusable in all lists and libraries on the site. Site columns can be also published with centrally managed content types from the Content Type Gallery, which is accessed from the SharePoint Admin Center. Centrally published columns are created in a special site called Content Type Hub and copied to sites that use published content types.

There are 19 different data types in SharePoint; in this book, we will focus on column types that can be used in modern user experience. Each column requires a name, optional description, column group, and may require a value, as well as specific...