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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By: Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen

Overview of this book

SharePoint is one of Microsoft's best known web platforms. A loyal audience of developers, IT Pros and power users use it to build line of business solutions. The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a great new option for developing SharePoint solutions. Many developers are creating full-trust based solutions or add-in solutions, while also figuring out where and how SPFx fits in the big picture. This book shows you how design, build, deploy and manage SPFx based solutions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016. The book starts by getting you familiar with the basic capabilities of SPFx. After that, we will walk through the tool-chain on how to best create production-ready solutions that can be easily deployed manually or fully automated throughout your target Office 365 tenants. We describe how to configure and use Visual Studio Code, the de facto development environment for SPFx-based solutions. Next, we provide guidance and a solid approach to packaging and deploying your code. We also present a straightforward approach to troubleshooting and debugging your code an environment where business applications run on the client side instead of the server side.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Fields in property panes

Individual properties in a property pane are shown as fields. Each field has a field type, such as textbox or link.

The allowed and currently supported field types are as follows:

  • Label, for text labels
  • Textbox, for a single-line text entry
  • Multi-line textbox, for a multi-line text entry
  • Checkbox, for a single checkable item
  • Dropdown, for a drop-down list of selectable items
  • Link, for clickable URLs
  • Slider, for a slider for selecting a value
  • Toggle, for an on/off toggle switch
  • Custom, for a custom field type

You would typically use several fields to provide a number of selections within a tool pane. The custom field is something you would use when none of the built-in field types fit your purpose. We will look at custom field types later in this chapter.