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SharePoint Calendar Web Part can make your work with Outlook calendar in SharePoint 2013 much easier! Now you can display Exchange calendar event attachments in tooltip of Virto SharePoint Calendar web part. The event tooltip box doesn’t leave you much room to explain everything, but now you can use the ability to add attachments to your SharePoint calendar events! You can show documents to co-workers, send files or just announce your company’s party with a pic alike via an event in your SharePoint calendar. Just check the box in web part settings and you will able to download attached files right from the event view. ...

Virto SharePoint Forms for Office 365 is intended to convert your default SharePoint list forms into compact and stylish custom SharePoint forms with many adjusting options. No more need for continuous SharePoint list scrolling! You can quickly order your data in SharePoint large lists, using SharePoint Forms for Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. Virto SharePoint Forms allows you to add to your SharePoint pages practical, short and impressive forms for invoices, reports, contact information, product details, and whatever else you require. ...

Originally, the Kanban method was implemented at Toyota plants to improve manufacturing efficiency – as a tool for Just-in-Time manufacturing. Kanban literally means the “signboard” in Japanese, since the system operates with signals to track the replenishment cycle. The system enables people involved in the production-trade cycle to stay informed of the inventory and consumption levels. The Kanban methodology got rooted in IT Project Management due to the high relevance of lean manufacturing values for software development. Here, we find Kanban as an agile framework, that is popular among IT people for its flexibility and visibility. ...

The most common case of SharePoint workflow examples is an approval workflow, when some items or documents in SharePoint 2013 or 2010 require approval from a user or from a list of users. This may be any request related to your business processes, requiring the task completion. What is a SharePoint workflow? The range of SharePoint workflow examples can be really huge. Document management, permissions on the site, list or item level, work with e-mails and e-mail attachments, confirmation of completed steps, automatic assignment of tasks/work are only the few, mostly used SharePoint workflow examples. Many organizations regardless of their size or business processes face time-consuming problems with repetitive tasks. The approving of simple tasks requires often lots of paid hours. SharePoint workflows can help automate document management with all its time spending benefits. The common out of the box workflows in SharePoint 2013 include the following actions types: ...

We have recently added new SharePoint 2013 workflows to our Virto SharePoint Workflow Activities kit, which contains now over 250 custom actions. We extended SharePoint permissions workflows with our new 19 SharePoint 2013 workflows: Stop inhereting permissions on list item/on list/on site. Restore inhereting permissions on list item/on list/on site. Add user to SharePoint group. Check if user is a member of SharePoint group. Get members of SharePoint group. Grant Permission on list item/on list/on site. Remove all list item permissions/all list permissions/all site permissions. Remove permissions from list item/from list/from site . Remove user from SharePoint group. These SharePoint 2013 workflow activities can be used to manage SharePoint permissions in list items, in list or in site. With this set of new SharePoint 2013 workflows you can override or append SharePoint permissions and check users permissions in SharePoint groups. Virto SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit contains over 250 activities for creating custom SharePoint workflows. It allows you to manage SharePoint sites and lists, send e-mail and sms, work with Active Directory groups, set permissions, and more. SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit works in both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. Learn more about all SharePoint 2013 workflow activities on our site! Also, you can check out our Virto SharePoint Workflow Suite, which consists of: SharePoint Workflow Activities kit SharePoint Status Monitor SharePoint Workflow Scheduler This set of tools allows you to manage workflows, using visual, intuitive designed solutions provided with an impressive set of 250+ activities and conditions for creating custom SharePoint workflows. Three web parts are united to work with SharePoint workflows including monitoring and scheduling them into a single bundle. Use collection of over 250 activities, create custom workflows, adjust schedule of workflows running and monitor all of them with Virto tools. All bundle components work in SharePoint 2013, 2010, and 2007. ...

SharePoint Password Reset and Recovery web part is designed for quick and simple resolution of situations when a user forgets their password or the password expires according to password security policy. In such cases, users typically need to contact their AD administrator every time they need to perform a SharePoint password reset or change. Managing user access becomes significantly easier with the SharePoint change password feature, allowing users to securely update their own passwords without administrator intervention. ...

Your Office 365 calendar can be accessible in a public area but it is required administrator support to configure the corresponding settings. You can also do the opposite: display any external calendar that supports iCal data sources using Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto. The “Let people in your organization use a public URL to share their calendars” option must be enabled in the “External sharing” tab of Office 365 Admin Center. ...

Multiple file upload to SharePoint is a common issue that puzzles either SharePoint version users. We come across lots of claims on SharePoint upload for multiple documents is not working. Bulk upload to SharePoint is a frequently encountered issue for users across different SharePoint versions. This article will discuss common challenges in using SharePoint Uploader and potential solutions to ensure seamless bulk upload SharePoint experiences. ...

SharePoint project management may be eating away your working time if not utilizing the OOTB SharePoint options, like task management templates, or specially designed third-party tools. The smart approach to this issue can incredibly shorten the whole project planning and production cycle. In this blogpost, we will highlight some basic features of SharePoint task management. SharePoint Personal Site A personal site in SharePoint is the easiest way to keep tracking your tasks and manage them from within one place. You can see an aggregate view of all tasks assigned to you across the entire SharePoint farm, regardless of where a task resides. You can edit a task by clicking on it and being redirected to the site or SharePoint task list, that contains this task. ...

As one of the most widely adopted productivity suites, Microsoft 365 and its predecessor Office 365 empowers over a million organizations worldwide (1). Core to its appeal lies seamless calendar and email integration advancing employee coordination. In this practical guide, we will explore step-by-step how teams can use Microsoft 365’s built-in calendaring functionality to align scheduling across the organization. From creating new calendars to establishing permissions and sharing settings, we cover the key features and best practices for configuration. ...

Our impressive, feature-rich Virto Calendar Overlay app t is available now for SharePoint Online too. Meet the brand new Calendar add-in for SharePoint Online! Virto Calendar Overlay App is a powerful and simple scheduling add-in that shows all your events from any SharePoint list and Exchange Online Calendar in different views. Check all the great features of a new Virto Calendar app. SharePoint Online Calendar plus Microsoft Exchange Outlook Calendar in one view. With Microsoft 365 Calendar app you can easily manage multiple schedules. Any SharePoint lists, even from distinct SharePoint sites, can be used as data sources. Also, the most sought-after feature SharePoint Online and Microsoft Exchange Outlook Calendar overlaying is available now in a single Virto Calendar Overlay! Color code events from distinct calendar lists. Mark every data source in your Microsoft 365 calendar add-in with its own color. Various calendar view types. Microsoft 365 Calendar add-in allows you to view schedules in Day, Week, Work Week, Month, Year, Task, Gantt, and Multi-source views. User-friendly interface. You can add and edit events and enable and disable data sources with a single mouse click. Now it is remarkably easy to move events to a new date/time with the drag-and-drop feature. Also, you can edit event duration in Microsoft 365 Calendar app with a simple resizing action. Pricing and availability. Virto Office365 Calendar Add-in license costs from $3.99 per user/month up to 100 users, and we also offer a discounted price for governments and non-profit organizations. Further information about the product and a free 30-day trial can be found on the product page. Related Products: | | Virto Calendar Overlay App |

VirtoSoftware released Office 365 Alerts App, which allows SharePoint users to send out group and personal email notifications about certain changes of SharePoint lists. The Virto Alerts App compliments a native SharePoint notification system with additional abilities. You will definitely enjoy the user friendly interface when setting up alerts’ forms and notification conditions. SharePoint Alert Customization Creation of custom Office 365 alerts became much easier and swifter. No coding required! You just need to submit necessary information into a four-tab form. The tabs are as follows: “General”, “Recipients”, “Message View”, and “Options”. On the “General” tab, one should specify the alert name and the corresponding SharePoint list. ...