Updating Legacy SharePoint Customizations

Modernize Your SharePoint Customizations with SharePoint Framework

Are you working with an older SharePoint environment filled with legacy customizations? This course, Updating Legacy SharePoint Customizations, provides the skills to effectively address these outdated solutions and build a future-proof user interface.

For years, developers have relied on various methods to customize SharePoint's user interface. Now it's time to transition to modern approaches. This course guides you through the process of assessing your current SharePoint customizations and implementing sustainable, maintainable solutions using SharePoint Framework (SPFx).

Here's what you'll learn:

• Inventory & Assessment: Learn how to thoroughly analyze your existing SharePoint customizations to understand the scope of the update project.
• Legacy Customization Migration: Explore practical migration strategies for common legacy customizations, including:
  • Script Editor Web Parts: Discover best practices for replacing these outdated web parts.
  • User Custom Actions: Understand how to migrate and replace user custom actions with modern alternatives.
• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Web Parts: Develop powerful client-side web parts using SPFx and JavaScript to build dynamic and interactive page elements. Learn how to manipulate page appearance with JavaScript.
• Application Customizer Extensions: Utilize Application Customizer extensions to extend the functionality and appearance of SharePoint pages.
• Command Set & Field Customizer Extensions: Replace legacy methods for customizing forms with modern approaches using Command Set and Field Customizer extensions. Learn to define custom Edit Control Block menu items and field renderings using JSLink.

By the end of this course, you'll be equipped to:

• Evaluate a legacy SharePoint environment.
• Develop and implement modern customizations using SharePoint Framework.
• Create sustainable and maintainable SharePoint solutions.
• Improve the overall user experience with a modern SharePoint interface.