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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 SharePoint pages in Microsoft Teams

SharePoint pages are useful for bringing important content to tabs on Microsoft Teams channels. Pages can be used to introduce a project or a team, bring in important news or events, create wiki pages, or create visual link lists to important content. All section and web part capabilities are available. Teams’ tabs do not support SharePoint’s navigation, so navigation needs to be figured out with tab titles.

Adding a page to the Teams channel is simple. Just click the + icon from the tab bar and search for SharePoint. The same tab can also bring in lists and document libraries:

Figure 6.20 - SharePoint tab in Teams

Figure 6.20 - SharePoint tab in Teams

By default, the tab discovers pages, lists, and libraries from the site linked to the opened team, but with linking, it’s possible to add content from other sites as well. When linking a tab to content on another site, the users need to have permission on that specific site to...