SharePoint Add-in recipes
The articles in this section show you how to use the SharePoint Add-in model to customize your SharePoint sites. The following table lists the articles that are included.
| Article | Shows you how to use the add-in model to |
|---|---|
| App-Only and Elevated privileges | Elevate privileges. |
| Branding SharePoint Sites | Brand SharePoint sites. |
| Custom Actions | Modify list item menus and the ribbon. |
| Custom Field Type | Provide customized end user experiences. |
| Delegate Controls | Implement delegate controls in your code. |
| Customize your SharePoint site UI using JavaScript embedding | Update your SharePoint site UI using JavaScript. |
| Custom Ribbons | Add or remove a custom ribbon on your SharePoint site. |
| Document ID Provider | Set unique identifiers for documents. |
| Event Receivers and List Event Receivers | Handle events in SharePoint. |
| Feature Stapling | Run code and deploy artifacts when a SharePoint site is provisioned. |
| Information Management Policy | Apply information management policy. |
| JavaScript customizations | You can use namespaces to avoid conflicts between your JavaScript customizations and standard SharePoint JavaScript or JavaScript customizations deployed by other developers. |
| List Definition / List Template | Create list definitions / list templates. |
| List Instance | Create list instances. |
| Localization | Implement localization for add-ins. |
| Master Pages | Implement custom master pages in SharePoint sites. |
| MMS manipulation | Perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations in the Managed Metadata Service (MMS). |
| Modules | Deploy artifacts to a SharePoint environment. |
| OneDrive for Business customization | Customize OneDrive for Business sites. |
| Performance Considerations | Ensure optimal performance with SharePoint. |
| Remote Timer Jobs | Implement timer jobs. |
| Remote Event Receivers | Use remote event receivers to handle events in the SharePoint Add-in model. |
| Search API Usage | Execute searches with the SharePoint Search Service. |
| Search Configuration | Configure search. |
| SharePoint change log | Use ChangeQuery and ChangeToken to query the SharePoint change log for changes made to a SharePoint content database, site collection, site, or list. |
| Site Columns and Content Types | Create site columns and content types in SharePoint sites. |
| Site Provisioning | Provision site collections and subsites. |
| Use asynchronous operations in SharePoint Add-ins | Implement asynchronous operations in SharePoint Add-ins by using Microsoft Azure WebJobs. |
| User Controls and Web Controls | Implement custom controls in your code. |
| User Profile Manipulation | Perform Create, Read, Update. and Delete (CRUD) operations in the user profile service. |
| Variations | Configure variations. |
| Web Part | Create portable page components. |
| Upload pre-configured web parts | Deploy pre-configured, standard SharePoint web parts for your users. |
| Connected SharePoint app parts | Implement real-time communication between SharePoint app parts by using SignalR. |
| Workflows, Actions (Activities), Events, and Forms | Implement workflows and their associated components. |
| Yammer Integration | Integrate Yammer with SharePoint. |