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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
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Part 1:Exploring SharePoint Online
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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

Creating Informative and Stunning Content with Modern SharePoint Pages

SharePoint has a long history of being a platform for informative portals used with a web browser, commonly called intranets. The modern experience brought a huge change to content authoring, mobile friendly and responsive by nature. It has some limitations, such as strictly defined styles, fonts, and page structure. Customization of the look and feel is fairly limited to theming and icons, but the focus should in any case be the content itself, enriched with the organization’s own images and graphics.

The modern authoring canvas is simple and intuitive to use. The page is structured in sections with different column layouts. The actual content is produced with web parts, which can be freely added and organized within columns, and move between columns and sections just by dragging. The content author sees the changes in real time when web parts are changed or content is added.

In this chapter, we’...