Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online: Design tailor-made solutions with modern SharePoint features to meet your organization's unique needs

by Matti Paukkonen

An effective manual that explores how to utilize SharePoint Online to enhance workflows and productivity through practical examples from real-world scenarios In today's modern world, organizations rely heavily on robust functionalities to ensure their business processes remain flexible and scalable. SharePoint custom development offers plenty of opportunities that serve ever-evolving needs, personalized experiences, and seamless integration across different platforms. If you are looking for practical guidance on developing custom SharePoint solutions, then this book is the right pick for you. This book takes you through different techniques to customize SharePoint using its native capabilities as well as extending these solutions with other platforms. We will begin by organizing content with SharePoint sites while discovering the best practices for permission governance. You will learn to create and manage pages and use web parts to create aggregate, and format content. We will also cover specialized use cases of the Viva suite and how to develop SharePoint automation with Power Automate while extending solutions with Power Apps. Toward the end, we will conclude with designing personalized solutions with SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph. By the end of this book, you will be ready to deliver highly customized SharePoint solutions that align closely with your business objectives. If you are a SharePoint administrator or a developer who wants to learn more about building modern experiences in SharePoint Online, this book is for you. To learn from this book, you should have a basic knowledge of SharePoint and Microsoft 365. This book will be helpful if you are in the role of an owner of collaboration solutions in Microsoft 365 which will give you comprehensive coverage of modern SharePoint Online capabilities and extensibility options.

402 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2024

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[Dimitri · Rating 5 out of 5]

📕 Why (Not) to read this book (Target Audience)

Great book after your first steps in SharePoint.

👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)

Lists and libraries offer versatile storage possibilities. A list can have 30 million list items, and a document library can hold the same number of files and folders. List and library views only support retrieving just 5,000 items at a time.

Columns and content types can be created on a site or a list/library level, or they can be centrally managed using SharePoint admin center’s Content type gallery.

⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)

Site columns can be also published with centrally managed content types from the Content Type Gallery, which is accessed from the SharePoint Admin Center. Centrally published columns are created in a special site called Content Type Hub and copied to sites that use published content types.

Here’s an example of how a content type ID is structured when content types are inherited from each other:

Item: 0x01
Document: 0x0101
Contract: 0x0101003C509B9764D45E409E5759550D7D5EA8
Employment contract: 0x0101003C509B9764D45E409E5759550D7D5EA801