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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

Creating your first SharePoint content page

Content pages live on the Site Pages library. Each site has a dedicated Site Pages library. Creating a new page starts by opening a site where the page needs to be published and shown to users. The easiest way is to navigate to the home page of the site, click + New from the toolbar, and select Page or News post, if the page is a news article:

Figure 6.1 - Creating a page

Figure 6.1 - Creating a page

Pick a template and select Create page from the bottom-right corner. The preview shows an overview of the template:

Figure 6.2 - Default page templates

Figure 6.2 - Default page templates

The page itself consists of a header section and an authoring canvas.

Header section

The header section includes the title of the page, the author’s name (which can be changed or hidden), the published date, and – depending on the header style – a background image. An optional text block above the title can be used for visually categorizing...