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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 experience in the modern SharePoint

The search box is located on the Microsoft 365 suite bar or header bar across different services and Microsoft 365 applications, such as Word, Excel, or Microsoft Teams. Depending on the location, the search box offers different types of results. In SharePoint, when the search box is accessed, it already displays some relevant content to the user:

Figure 7.1 - The default search experience in SharePoint

Figure 7.1 - The default search experience in SharePoint

As shown in Figure 7.1, the search box displays the history of used search terms, recently accessed and relevant sites, recently accessed files and pages, and relevant people. Relevant sites are based on users’ membership and what sites users are following. Relevant people are discovered based on collaboration patterns and connections in the organization. When the user starts typing in a search term, the search box results are refined:

Figure 7.2 - Refined search box results

Figure 7.2 - Refined search box results

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