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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

Search in SharePoint

SharePoint’s search is a powerful tool for discovering, sorting, and filtering content added to SharePoint sites. Search can index pages, lists, libraries, and even access the content of supported documents and extract search terms from the document content. In addition, SharePoint’s search index can be used to create different content aggregations and, as an example, out-of-the-box news web parts utilize the search index to aggregate content from different locations in SharePoint. SharePoint search includes sophisticated features such as promoting or ranking important search results.

In the modern SharePoint, as well as many other Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Search is the default search experience. Microsoft Search brings together data across Microsoft 365, from SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, People, Power BI reports, and customized locations such as company CRM, Wiki platform, or public websites. Microsoft 365 utilizes Microsoft Graph to...