Overview
Prerequisites
- A good understanding of Windows.
- Experience using Internet Explorer 11 or equivalent browser.
- Experience with Microsoft SharePoint Online equivalent to our “SharePoint Online End User Level 1”.
- Fundamental experience with Office 365 is recommended, such as Log in and navigation around the service.
- A good knowledge of Office 2013 / 2016 applications (Word, Excel, Outlook).
Learning Outcomes
- Manage custom apps and their settings
- Import data from and Excel Worksheet into a Custom List
- Customise and manage metadata to meet business data needs
- Customise and manage views to present information on web pages
- Edit Web pages and Web Parts
Course Outline
- SharePoint knowledge review
- Consolidated activity
- Site roles
- Site types
- Initial site settings
- What is an app?
- Effective app management
- Add an app
- The list interface
- The app settings page
- Add and edit items in a list
- Item details pane and item menu
- Delete and restore an item
- Surveys
- Lists App
- Choose the experience
- Manage list items
- Introduction to metadata
- Column types and properties
- Windows Explorer and mapping metadata
- Hyperlink or picture column
- Lookup column
- Calculated column
- Managed metadata and the term store
- Metadata integrity
- Column indexing
- Introduction to views
- Manage views
- Temporary views
- Public and personal views
- Page types
- Site pages
- Add text to a site page
- Insert hyperlinks into text
- Insert an image
- Embed media
- Publish a site page
- News posts
- Introduction to web parts
- App previews
- Hero web part
- Microsoft 365 web parts
- Principals of Office with SharePoint
- Connect to Outlook
- Connect to Excel
Appendix 1: Calculated column formulas and functions
- Mathematical
- Logical
- Date and time
- Text
Appendix 2: Column types and limitations
Appendix 3: SharePoint boundaries, thresholds and limits
- Web applications and site collections
- Apps
Appendix 4: Request Sign-off Workflow Using Power Automate
- Why use Workflows?
- What is Power Automate?
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