Building the Modern Workplace with SharePoint Online

Intermediate

Build a digital workplace solution from scratch using SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. The book will help you implement all the modern capabilities of the SharePoint Framework, Teams, and Power Platform into a SharePoint Online solution.

You will begin your journey with a short overview of the basics of SharePoint Online. You will then work through a case study with a solutions approach to implement various business requirements using SharePoint Online. Further, you will learn how to provision sites using PnP and build SharePoint forms using out-of-the-box forms. The next section covers Power Apps and Power Automate, followed by a discussion on SharePoint Framework where you will learn to customize SharePoint Online sites using SPFx. Moving forward you will go through configuration and customization of PnP modern search. Wrapping up, you will integrate Microsoft Teams, MS Graph, and Power Virtual Agents with SharePoint Online.

After reading Building the Modern Workplace with SharePoint Online you will be able to build SharePoint Online sites according to your business requirements and integrate SharePoint Online with other services for a modern workplace experience.

What You Will Learn

• Build modern workplace solutions using SharePoint Online out-of-the-box features
• Use Power App forms, SPFx web parts, SPFx extensions, and modern search
• Create Power Automate workflows
• Develop Teams solutions and chatbots
• Use Microsoft Graph and PnP JS with SharePoint
• Customize search capabilities

Who This Book Is For All SharePoint developers and power users.

Chapter 1: Get Stared with SharePoint Online

Chapter Goal: This chapter covers the evolution of SharePoint and what experiences SharePoint Online can bring in.

No of pages 20

Subtopics

1. Evolution of SharePoint in the cloud.

2. Experiences SharePoint can bring.

3. Integration with Microsoft suite

4. Integration with Third party solutions

Chapter 2: Case Study: Intranet

Chapter Goal: This chapter puts an example of an intranet and mentions about various requirements

No of pages : 30

Sub - Topics

1. Business requirements of the intranet

2. How SharePoint Online is the right choice

3. Value-adds.

4. Approach of solving various business needs

Chapter 3: Building the UI - SharePoint forms

Chapter Goal: Covers the out of box form capabilities of SharePoint to bring the best possible user experience.

No of pages : 30

Sub - Topics:

1. SharePoint forms.

2. JSON formatting with examples.

3. The pros and cons.

4. Performance glitches and user experience.

Chapter 4: Power Apps

Chapter Goal: Covers the user experience that Power Apps forms can bring in.

No of pages :30

Sub - Topics:

1. Introduction to Power Apps.

2. Develop your first Power Apps List form

3. Form validations

4. Deploy Power Apps

Chapter 5: Power Automate

Chapter Goal: Covers how to automate business processes using power automate and how to trigger events

No of pages:50

Sub - Topics:

1. Introduction to Power Automate

2. Business Process workflows

3. Power Automate tips

4. Deploy Power Automate flows

Chapter 6: SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

Chapter Goal: Covers customization of SharePoint Online sites using SPFx

No of pages :60

Sub - Topics:

1. Introduction to modern JavaScript

2. Quick start on Typescript and React JS

3. Build SPFx Web Parts

4. SPFx Extensions with examples.

5. SPFx Deployment

6. SPFx Interesting facts

Chapter 7: Modern Search

Chapter Goal: Covers SharePoint Online search capabilities.

No of pages :30

Sub - Topics:

1. Configuring PnP Modern Search Webpart

2. Customizing the Search Web part

3. Different Search experiences.

Chapter 8: Microsoft Teams and Power Virtual Agents

Chapter Goal: Covers Teams development, Microsoft Graph and Power Virtual Agents

No of pages :50

Sub - Topics:

1. Introduction to Microsoft Graph

2. Microsoft Teams development

3. Integrating teams with SharePoint Online

4. Power Virtual Agents chatbot with Teams

Harinarayanan is a seasoned SharePoint professional with 10+ years of experience in the design and development of applications using Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Azure, Teams, Power Platform, .NET, and React. He built SharePoint solutions for various clients across the world. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect, Microsoft 365 Developer, and Power Platform Developer. He is based in Melbourne, Australia, and works as a SharePoint Specialist in Victorian Public Service. Email: harivpau@gmail.com