Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online

Leverage SharePoint Online to enhance workflows and productivity with the help of practical examples from real-world scenarios

Key Features

• Discover strategies for maximizing the potential and effectiveness of SharePoint features
• Explore the synergy between Power Platform and Viva Suite when integrated with SharePoint Online
• Lean to use SharePoint Framework and extensions to deliver personalized user experiences
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Discover the diverse capabilities offered by SharePoint Online
• Organize and classify documents with Microsoft Syntex AI models
• Add automation capabilities using SharePoint’s REST APIs with Power Automate
• Enhance the user experience by connecting SharePoint data to Canvas apps
• Design custom solutions using SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph
• Understand how to use ready-made solutions from the developer community

Who this book is for

If you’re a SharePoint administrator or developer who wants to learn more about building modern experiences in SharePoint Online, this book is for you. Familiarity with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is recommended. Specifically curated for roles overseeing collaboration solutions in Microsoft 365, this book offers comprehensive coverage of modern SharePoint Online capabilities and extensibility options.

Table of Contents

1. SharePoint Online in a Nutshell
2. Organize Content with SharePoint Sites
3. Access Controls in SharePoint
4. Lists and Libraries
5. Describing Content with Site Columns and Content Types
6. Creating Informative and Stunning Content with Modern SharePoint Pages
7. Search in SharePoint
8. Managed Metadata
9. Understand Information with Microsoft Syntex
10. Bring SharePoint Content to Teams with Viva Connections
11. App Catalog and the SharePoint Store
12. Automate SharePoint with Power Automate
13. Extend SharePoint with Power Apps
14. Site, List, and Document Templates
15. Improving List Experiences with View Formatting
16. Introduction to SharePoint Framework
17. Access SharePoint Data using Microsoft Graph
18. Web Parts and App Part Pages
19. Extending User Experiences with SharePoint Framework Extensions
20. Community Solutions for Extending SharePoint Online

Matti Paukkonen is a modern work professional who has been working in the IT industry and Microsoft ecosystem for over 15 years and with Microsoft cloud solutions for over 10 years. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Microsoft 365 app and services award category. He is based in Kuopio, south central Finland and he holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in telecommunications technology from Savonia University of Applied Sciences.