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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

Content types

SharePoint content types are used to manage site columns, item or document behavior, and templates linked to a document. Every item and document is linked to a certain content type. On a list, the default content type is Item, which includes just an editable Title column and SharePoint’s default columns, such as Created, Modified, and Modified By.

On a document library, the default content type is Document, which includes a name (linked to a filename), a title, and SharePoint’s default columns. The Document content type is inherited from the Item content type. All content types derive from these basic content types by inheriting columns and settings. The content type ID visualizes the inheritance since the parent’s ID is always included. This is very handy when you want to search over a content type and its descendants.

Here’s an example of how a content type ID is structured when content types are inherited from each other:

Item:...