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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

Using content types and site columns in lists and libraries

Adding a new column to a list or libraries is simple. Click Add column at the end of a column, select the column type, and fill out the necessary information:

Figure 5.13 - Creating a column

Figure 5.13 - Creating a column

Adding an existing site column to a list or library is done from List settings. Click Add an existing site column at the bottom of the columns list. Select needed columns and define columns updated to all content types and added to the default view. Adding columns to content types doesn’t update site-level content types; it just manages content types on the list:

Figure 5.14 - Adding an existing site column to a list

Figure 5.14 - Adding an existing site column to a list

Adding and managing content types on lists and libraries

Published content types can be added directly from the Add column view by scrolling to the bottom, selecting Add a content type, and selecting content types as needed. Content types need to be enabled...