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Organizations that consistently employ project management practices boast an impressive 92% success rate (1) in meeting their project objectives—a statistic that underscores the critical role of project management in today’s corporate world. At the heart of this success is SharePoint, Microsoft’s renowned platform for collaboration and project management. As organizations strive for efficiency and seamless operation, SharePoint’s popularity has soared, making it a go-to solution for businesses aiming to streamline project processes and enhance teamwork. ...

Search is one of the most important topics in SharePoint usage. However, it is often overlooked, especially in small projects or at initial project planning stages. Let us consider a quick search example in the SharePoint Online list and various search problems which the user/administrator may encounter. Let’s create a contact list and name it TeamContacts. Now we fill some data in the list: ...

How to send an e-mail to multiple recipients in a list field (People/ Groups with multiple recipients) from SPD workflow? Answer #1: You will not be able to do this specific task with standard SharePoint Designer workflows. As you know it is possible only to target a specific value based on the value in another column. The easiest work-around would be to create a SharePoint security group which contains users and then target this group in the Send Email action. Just make sure that the group is configured for membership to be visible by all users. I know that it is not perfect solution in managing information twice, but this is all we can do with SharePoint Designer. ...

In the previous post, we looked at the process of adding and debugging of Remote Event Receiver. The receiver was added to the list, which is set in our Web application. In this post, we will take a look at how to add event receivers to the lists that are in the Host Web. As an example, we will create a Provider-hosted application (app). This application will allow us to connect the remote event receiver to any list in the Host Web. ...

In this post we will describe how to create and debug Remote Event Receivers for SharePoint Online (Office 365). As an example, we will create a project, which will have an event receiver that is triggered on item creation in Report list. Create a project in Visual Studio 2013. Select the App for SharePoint template. Remote event receivers are supported only by Provider-hosted applications, that is why we choose this type. To create the application, we also need an account in Office 365 (you can purchase a licensed version from the developer, or use a 30 days trial). ...

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Virto Sharepoint Event Calendar Viewer web part allows you to display events of various types defined according to your business needs. Modern look, high usability and easy-to-adjust solution are just a few highlights of its capabilities. Available Display Modes Autodetection of Event Type This means that if you start entering an event type that was created before, the field will offer the existing option types. This will definitely shorten the process of event creations. ...

This article describes how to adjust cross-browser drag and drop of files from your computer to SharePoint Document Library with the help of Virto Bulk Upload. You will also learn how you can adjust file properties, resize Jpeg images before upload to the server and automatically unpack ZIP archive after uploading to the server. ...

In order to add the toolbar button, select the checkbox Show toolbar action button. Enter button text or define the image Url. Select Action Url action type for the button in order to set redirect to define Url after button click. Or use ActionScript to run JavaScript code. In case Action Script is selected, use the **Script…**button to enter the JavaScript code. Script usage sample code will be entered in the displayed window by default. Value <%VirtoCheckedItemsArray%> will be replaced with mass that contains keys and values of selected items. In order to return the default code, use the Reset button. Click Save when you have entered your code. Or use Cancel to cancel the operation and close enter script editor window. ...

This article describes how Virto Social Aggregator can be used to publish SharePoint Announcements from different sites in a single location. Introduction You need to have Virto Social Aggregator installed. A 30-day trial is available on the product website http://www.virtosoftware.com/virto-rss-twitter-facebook-aggregator-web-part-for-sharepoint.aspx. The web part is fully compatible with both SharePoint 2007 & 2010 & 2013. Virto Social Aggregator is a SharePoint web part for aggregating and displaying posts from various RSS feeds. It combines blogs, news, as well as posts from Twitter and popular social networks (Facebook). ...

This article explains how to create a new field to input credit card numbers without the necessity to write a code. For this task, you need to download and install Virto Custom Mask and Unique Field Validation. This multi-purpose component allows you to create custom fields in design mode and check fields for unique criteria within the current list, site or site collection framework. To start, create a new list entitled “Credit Card Storage”. You can also add new fields to any existing list as well, if preferred. ...

Caching is set separately for every added Virto SherePoint Pivot View web part. To activate caching open web part settings block and use “Enable cache” button in the Cache settings. By default caching is done in a half an hour after clicking the button and then daily the same time. To define cache settings use Open cache settings. When you follow the link, settings window will open and you will be able to define cache schedule there. When cache schedule settings are defined click OK (or Cancel to cancel changes). You will see the page with a list of web parts with cache settings defined. With help of Enable/Disable buttons you can enable or disable caching. When you use Delete button, cache is enabled and cleaned. To cancel caching you can also use Disable cache button in the Cache settings block of web part settings (the button will be visible only if cache is activated). Caching is made by OWSTimer service. If cache is active but there are no images generated for it or images are being created, data will be generated dynamically when opening web part page.