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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 schema and schema management

The search schema is a crucial part of SharePoint Online’s search functionality as it defines how information is indexed and queried in SharePoint Online. With schema customization, organizations can tailor the search results for specific needs – for example, by enabling sorting or refining capabilities to specific indexed site columns.

The search schema is built on crawled properties and managed properties. Crawled properties are pieces of information that are taken from the content that is indexed, such as the value of the site column on a list item or a part of a document content on a document library. Crawled properties are created automatically when the content is crawled – for example, a value of the Salary column is linked to a crawled property called ows_Salary. All the columns with the same name are linked to the same crawled property. Managed properties are used to define how content can be retrieved, queried, or...