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Over the past few years, the concept of a corporate portal has undergone significant changes. Today, an intranet portal, such as Microsoft SharePoint, is a special environment that combines classic task, time, and document management tools with modern tools like social networks and blogs. Today’s main trend is to increase business efficiency by creating a productive working environment for employees to unlock their potential. Companies are increasingly considering implementing tools such as SharePoint to become more mobile, technologically advanced, and efficient. This is not surprising: a company works more productively with well-organized document flow, business process management, and employee interaction. And this makes sense for both small and large companies. ...

Do you ever feel like everyone but you has a corporate Time-Turner like the ones from Rowling’s books? Does it ever seem like everyone else knows the secret of getting everything done all at once? It might seem that way, but in reality, there’s only one scientifically sound solution to getting things done – proper planning. And when you work in a team, you need to ensure adequate planning for the whole crew. ...

Overview VirtoSoftware is going to release a new update for Virto Kanban Board Pro App Microsoft Teams. We have changed the design and improved Kanban usability for mobile users. Now you can work with a full-featured Kanban Board for mobile devices. The application interface is fully adapted to mobile now. Virto Kanban Board integrates perfectly with Microsoft Teams. You can add the app to a Microsoft Teams channel as a separate tab. We have improved Kanban for Microsoft Teams: now, you can apply a dark theme to the Kanban Board added to your Microsoft Teams. ...

Open the SharePoint site page where you have added Virto Kanban Board. Click “Copy this board link to clipboard.” Insert the link to SharePoint left menu or quick launch. Now you can navigate directly to the board from the left menu. The board will open as an independent page. ...

Introduction Gantt chart and Kanban as methods have existed for a long time. Thanks to their founders, Henry Gantt and Taiichi Ohno, we now have two fascinating business management tools. VirtoSoftware offers online and on-premises versions for both approaches. You can use Virto Gantt Chart or Virto Kanban Board for your business. But which one to choose? Or can we use both? We want to show fundamental differences between the Gantt chart and Kanban board approaches. Here is a detailed comparison to help project teams choose the right solution to visualize, plan, schedule, and manage better! ...

Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto offers fast and smooth integration with Microsoft Teams. Integrating Calendar Overlay Pro is vital for Microsoft Teams users as it ensures a convenient workflow: it speeds up event creation, as data no longer needs to be entered several times in different applications, and it removes the need to check multiple calendars to avoid overlaps when creating a meeting. This is why we always strive to improve the user experience and simplify the working process of our Microsoft Teams calendar app. ...

Calendar Overlay Pro for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams supports a crucial feature for any contemporary work calendar - recurring events. Nowadays, everyone has repeating events, such as weekly team meetings, sprint debriefings, and team-wide sync meetings, in their work schedule, so this Calendar Overlay Pro feature will make your planning a lot easier! You don’t need to manually and repeatedly add these recurring events. Instead, you can set up recurring events in a couple of clicks; there is a wide range of conditions for recurring events, and you can easily automate the creation of events according to these conditions. ...

Gantt Chart App for SharePoint Online is now available in Microsoft App Store. Find something new in our article! A couple of months ago, we released the updated version of the Virto SharePoint Gantt Chart on-premises. This time we are ready to show Gantt Chart Online App. Introduction Today people all over the world can use the Gantt chart as a method of efficient task management. Modern tools allow users to automate creating such a diagram in a couple of minutes. As a result, managers and stakeholders can instantly get an informative and clear picture of any project in a Gantt chart view. Gantt Chart App for Office 365 by VirtoSoftware was designed to provide the classic logic of task management for Microsoft SharePoint users. The app takes data from a custom SharePoint list (or multiple lists) and generates the tasks tree view. Users only need to check that start and end dates are chosen for each task in the source list. ...

Virto Calendar App for Microsoft Teams and Office 365 supports adding iCalendar feeds to your Virto Calendar view. Read in our article how you can do this. What is iCalendar Feed for? An iCalendar feed or .ics feed is a unique calendar format you can use to work with most calendar solutions. Its key purpose is to share calendar data between different calendars and calendar applications. Virto Calendar supports adding events from Outlook, SharePoint lists, public folders, and Microsoft Planner, but that’s not all. You also can add events from Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, or other calendars supporting iCal feeds with the help of the iCalendar link. ...

Virto apps are easy to install. But what if you need a few more steps to finalize installation? Read in our simple blog post. Or watch the video below. You never have to spend much time on the installation before using the Virto App. Virto Kanban Board, Calendar Overlay, O365 Alerts, and many others need just a few steps to install. Moreover, you can install and add some Virto Apps directly from Microsoft Teams. ...

Introduction Previously VirtoSoftware has released an update of 365 Alerts Online App. This new simple feature was highly desired by our customers. And this is hardly surprising because the ability to use it pretty much enlarges the alert system functionality. We are talking about the use of tags with links and adding clickable items to alerts and reminders. Now, this feature is also available for on-premise users. Tags with Links Using tags with links added to an alert or reminder stays requisite when you need to send something clickable to recipients. It could be a clickable line in a table, simple text, or an image. The most valuable point is that this “something clickable” changes according to the conditions you specify for the alert. For example, a team of designers has a SharePoint list where they keep working on banners. And they would like to send an alert with a banner preview image and link to the full-size banner every time it is approved by the senior designer. Certainly, the banner is new every time the recipient receives an alert. And there is no need to paste it manually to the message, Virto Alerts and Reminders web part makes it automatically. You just have to tune it the right way. We’ll show you how. ...

Board Notifications Virto Kanban Board web part for SharePoint 2019 is ready to use with its updated functionality. First, we have prepared a new option for board administrators. Now it is possible to adjust a board notification message as you wish. How to tune the alert message? Go to the settings block under the gear icon on the left top corner. And then find the “Virto Kanban Task Manager settings” under the “Site Administration”. ...