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How to Add a Data Source to Virto Calendar

See the new how-to video for the Virto Calendar App. We will show you how you can add a new data source to the Virto Calendar. In this video, we will show you how you can add a new data source from a SharePoint list to your Virto Calendar. ...

January 25, 2022 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Calendar App Overview in the New Video

We have added the updated overview of the Virto Calendar App to our YouTube channel. Watch and see the basic features of Virto Calendar Overlay for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. Virto Calendar is a perfect tool to make a calendar overlay and merge events from Outlook, SharePoint lists, public folders, Microsoft Planner, and other data sources in a single view. ...

January 21, 2022 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Calendar Update: Location Field and Mini Calendar SPFx

The latest update of the Virto Calendar app provides new options for the location field. Also, now you can use the Virto Mini Calendar web part on modern SharePoint sites. See the post to get more details. Virto Calendar App: Location Field VistoSoftware has just updated the Virto Calendar App for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. Now the Virto Calendar supports adding locations from the list of available ones. To choose a location for your calendar entry, just select the one from the list in the calendar settings. This option helps to save the location field for Outlook entries as well. ...

January 18, 2022 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

How to Install SPFx Custom App?

Please follow this simple instruction if you need to install the SPFx custom app. Sometimes you may need to use a custom app by VirtoSoftware. In this case, the installation process differs from the classic one. Follow the steps below to install the custom app to your SharePoint site. Step 1. Click “Download” to save the app to your device (download the sppkg file from our website). Note: To install a custom app to your Office 365 tenant you will need SharePoint admin permissions. If you don’t have the admin permissions, please contact your SharePoint admin. Step 2. Now go to the SharePoint Admin interface to install the custom app for your tenant. ...

January 1, 2022 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

Top 6 SharePoint On-Premise and SharePoint Online Reporting Tools

Introduction The importance of business intelligence is rather hard to overestimate, and this statement could be applied to pretty much any industry out there. SharePoint is not an exception to this rule, and it’s also easy to see how companies showed lots of interest in SharePoint reporting as a feature in recent years. As with any similar situation on the market, the increase in popularity of SharePoint reporting tools led to an entire market of SharePoint reporting becoming more active. Newer solutions are getting developed and compete for the customer’s attention, and older, existing solutions implement newer features to keep up with the demand, as well as with the competition. ...

December 28, 2021 · 8 min · Maria Kosareva

Unlocking SharePoint's Full Potential for Project Management

Efficient project management is the bedrock of successful enterprises, and SharePoint has become a go-to tool for many businesses using the Microsoft ecosystem. With its diverse capabilities, SharePoint is perfect for handling most project management needs. However, to unlock its full potential, integrating third-party applications tailored for specific tasks is often essential. In this article, we will look at how SharePoint becomes a real project management powerhouse when boosted with high-quality apps. ...

December 28, 2021 · 15 min · Maria Kosareva

Creating Reports Using SharePoint Lists

Reports from SharePoint lists Presentation is important for pretty much any data source – and SharePoint lists are no exception. Even if you have all of your SharePoint lists filled with interesting data, it would still be more or less useless unless you can present it in an understandable fashion. Especially when it comes to reports for higher-ups, you’ll most likely need dashboards, KPIs, gauges, and so on. Luckily enough, SharePoint does have a few reporting options that can be used in this scenario. It’s also possible to figure out that there are two basic approaches to a SharePoint list report here – to use an out-of-the-box solution, or to use a dedicated reporting solution. ...

December 8, 2021 · 6 min · Maria Kosareva

Embedding Chart in SharePoint. How to Display Excel Chart in SharePoint?

Charts are a great way to diversify the contents of your SharePoint site, they can be used to show a particular dynamic, highlight one of your advantages as a company, and much more than that. And adding charts in SharePoint is not particularly hard, either. In fact, there are several different ways of doing that when it comes to a SharePoint Online page. Two of the easiest ways to create a chart in SharePoint is to use a SharePoint’s own feature called “Quick chart”, and to use another feature called “File Viewer” to embed the file’s contents (a chart or a diagram, in our case) – in this particular scenario we’ll be using a “File Viewer” to display Excel chart in SharePoint. ...

December 6, 2021 · 7 min · Maria Kosareva

How To Approach Microsoft Teams Reporting? Microsoft Teams Reporting Dashboard.

Overview The introduction of Microsoft Teams to a wide audience has become a real breakthrough in terms of collaboration opportunities. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for the potential of Microsoft Teams to be suppressed by age-old problems, such as lack of knowledge, inactive Microsft Teams groups acting as a dead weight, and so on. Even though Microsoft Teams is a rather flexible platform, it can still become rather problematic to manage all of the different groups at once, especially when some of them are no longer active in the first place. There’s also the fact that some of the groups might just be temporary in the first place, and they’ll stay unused after their purpose is served. ...

November 23, 2021 · 15 min · Maria Kosareva

Top 10 Tools to Create Dashboard in SharePoint. How to Create Dashboard in SharePoint?

SharePoint has been around for a while now – and yet it is still one of the most important tools for many businesses and enterprises, offering all of the different capabilities of a web-based collaborative platform. SharePoint dashboards, for example, are pretty much unparalleled when it comes to the various tasks of centralized administration. The purpose of a SharePoint dashboard A dashboard in SharePoint allows companies to evaluate data from multiple sources in a form that is easy to understand and work with. The main purpose of a dashboard is to display KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators, which usually require locating and aggregating data in real-time from multiple sources. ...

November 14, 2021 · 10 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Kanban Board On-Premise: Automated Bulk Actions

VirtoSoftware introduces the updated Kanban Board web part with brand-new features. What we have added and how you can apply this with maximum benefit — read in our new blog post! Kanban Board On-Premise for SharePoint keeps on increasing its productivity and provides more and more incredible features! We have just released the update of the Kanban Board web part. Now the web part provides two types of bulk actions with Kanban board tasks. Let’s start! ...

November 11, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

Kanban Board App: Add Fields to a Custom List for Your Board

VirtoSoftware introduces the updated Virto Kanban Board App with new useful options. Take a look at what we have changed and how you can apply it. VirtoSoftware announces the update of the Virto Kanban Board App for Office 365 and MS Teams. We have been working on the process of creating boards from a custom list. As you know, you can create a new board from an existing list or create a quick board. ...

November 3, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva