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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Let’s first open the web part class, which, in this example, is the OnboardingTasksWebPart.ts file, and go through the basic elements.”

A block of code is set as follows:

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/ tenant.sharepoint.com,28e328a9-00f4-4b6e-b850-abf67531ec21,f3d3bc0d-216a-4b27-a2bd-278bba0c9e1a/lists?$select=displayName,webUrl

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

this.context.msGraphClientFactory.getClient("3").then((client:MSGraphClientV3): void=>{client.api("/me").get((error, response:any, rawResponse?:any)=>{
           this.userProf.displayName = response.displayName;
           this.userProf.mail = response.mail;
           this.userProf.jobtitle = response.jobTitle;
        });
     });

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

export interface IOnboardingTasksState {
    items: IOnboardingTask[];
}

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “Creating a new model starts in the content center by selecting New on the content center homepage “

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