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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

You're reading from   SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework Design and implement state-of-the-art customizations for SharePoint

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121430
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jussi Roine Jussi Roine
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Olli Jääskeläinen Olli Jääskeläinen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing SharePoint Online for Developers FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing Solutions for SharePoint 3. Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework 4. Building Your First Web Part 5. Using Visual Studio Code and Other Editors 6. Packaging and Deploying Solutions 7. Working with SharePoint Content 8. Working with the Web Part Property Pane 9. Using React and Office UI Fabric React Components 10. Working with Other JavaScript Frameworks 11. Troubleshooting and Debugging SharePoint Framework Solutions 12. SharePoint APIs and Microsoft Graph 13. The Future of SharePoint Customizations

Property panes in classic web parts

Classic web parts, and also typically those that have been available in SharePoint Online for a long time, expose a classic property pane. This is readily accessible when you edit a page and hover the mouse over a web part.

In the following screenshot, a Content Editor Web Part has been added on a page, and in order to edit the contents, we need to click on the small down-arrow in the top-right corner:

This forces a page refresh, which also instructs the Content Editor Web Part to display the property pane on the right side of the page:

This has been both cumbersome and also problematic when a page consists of multiple web parts, as the property pane is in a fixed position relative to page contents. In pages with more content, the property pane is fixed in the top-right corner, while the content you're truly working on might be several page lengths lower.

Regardless of its usability, the property pane is very useful and easy to use. Developers...

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