Posted on July 27, 2021
Watch our new video and see key magic features of Virto SharePoint Alerts Online for Office 365 and MS Teams.
Posted on September 9, 2020
The main source of stress in the workplace is often miscommunication. Most managers spend a huge amount of their working time establishing a dialogue with their teammates. And given the fact that there are usually several, or maybe even dozens, of people in a team, this can take up most of a manager’s workday.
Posted on July 27, 2020
We have improved the permissions management model for Virto SharePoint Kanban Online. To help you apply the changes faster, we have also prepared the answers for the most frequently asked questions. Is the Gear icon always on? Yes. Sometimes, when people try to experiment, they lose access. People may need to adjust their access level...
Posted on July 16, 2020
In this article, we would like to show you how to install the Virto Kanban Board directly from your Microsoft Teams and start using it. You will see how easy the installation process is. Just follow the steps below and start using Virto SharePoint Kanban Board right now!
Posted on January 31, 2018
Many users in a company utilizing SharePoint environment get their feet dipped into the pool of SharePoint for nothing else than managing some lists and calendars. Because calendaring is always handy on the company, department, and individual level. The SharePoint calendars are displayed as regular calendars, lists, worksheets, and charts with requiring very little or zero...
Posted on January 30, 2018
SharePoint Calendar helps keep companies organized and informed of what is going on inside its walls. Many organizations use SharePoint shared calendars for managing their conference rooms and other resources, such as equipment and transport. So, let’s explore how to share a calendar in SharePoint Online step-by-step. Before you start: Before you start configuring a group...
Posted on January 29, 2018
It takes only seconds to sync an Office 365 calendar with Outlook so that you can view SharePoint and Outlook calendars combined in one place. And with Calendar Overlay Pro you can extend the functionality of your calendars with color-coding, recurring events and finally, overlay as many calendars as you need.
Posted on January 29, 2018
The SharePoint platform allows us to connect a SharePoint calendar to Outlook, and manage the imported calendar in the Outlook interface as easy as in the native environment.
Posted on January 29, 2018
SharePoint is known for its powerful collaboration opportunities, and effectively adding and managing calendars is essential for companies using SharePoint. Calendar Overlay Pro for SharePoint allows users to combine several calendars, Microsoft Planner tasks, and much more in a single view.
Posted on January 22, 2018
Microsoft Office 365 provides a better solution for displaying a conference room calendar: you do not have to create and configure a company shared calendar to make that happen.
Posted on January 21, 2018
If you want to share your Office 365 calendar with your co-workers or, say, customers, you can perform that within the Exchange Online or Outlook calendar interface.
Posted on December 8, 2017
In order to differentiate various list items and highlight key items, there can be applied a method of SharePoint list color coding.
Posted on October 6, 2017
Take a quick start guide to fully utilize the Virto Calendar app handy features. Now, you can manage every calendar list across your SharePoint site collection in a single view.
Posted on September 27, 2017
Conceptually,SharePoint workflows are used to automate and simplify different work processes, such as document approval, user permission management, reports generating, and many other specific business processes and recurrent daily tasks.
Posted on July 31, 2017
SharePoint Forms have been serving as an outstanding collaboration and management tool for many years. Using this tool, one can process corporate data of all types, volumes, and purposes.
Posted on June 29, 2017
The Microsoft SharePoint platform is a unique software-based solution, initially designed to provide employees with thorough and efficient cooperation.
Posted on March 7, 2017
In this article, we will discuss the difference between SharePoint workflow types and create a SharePoint 2013 reusable workflow.
Posted on March 7, 2017
How to create workflow in SharePoint 2013? The guide from VirtoSoftware. SharePoint Designer workflows are a great way to automate business processes. This SharePoint workflow tutorial tells about how to create a simple SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow. If you are new to the subject, this post will show you the basics on how to create...
Posted on March 7, 2017
How you can apply them to optimize your work processes? Which SharePoint workflow tools can be used?
Posted on February 2, 2017
SharePoint alerts can be configured to send an email or SMS when any documents or items on a SharePoint site have been changed. There are many use cases and business scenarios where you can use SharePoint alerts. You can configure instant notifications for changes and updates made to an item, list, or library to improve the...
Posted on February 2, 2017
The SharePoint collaborative platform allows users to launch quite a sophisticated notification system.
Posted on January 20, 2017
Regardless of the future of still dying InfoPath with its pro and cons, there are many other ways on how to create a form in SharePoint 2013 with other solutions. This article will help you to find out how to create a form in SharePoint 2013 easily and seamlessly.
Posted on December 5, 2016
Need to create a SharePoint Kanban Board for a task list inside SharePoint Online? Here you can find step-by-step directions on how to do that.
Posted on December 5, 2016
For quickly differentiating tasks inside a SharePoint Kanban board you can color code them. First of all you need to choose the board and go to “card setup”.
Posted on December 5, 2016
For those who didn’t know: you can create a SharePoint Kanban board that allows you to manage tasks by users instead of priority! This can be done in two ways.
Posted on December 5, 2016
SharePoint’s Alerts and Reminders App is a great tool which allows you to send alerts and reminders from SharePoint via email, and creates a flexible notification system on your SharePoint site. In addition, it has a convenient interface and is very easy to set up.
Posted on December 5, 2016
SharePoint Event Alerts is a flexible notification system that sends alerts and reminders in SharePoint online via email. Let’s discuss how to set up a daily summary of changes made to a document.
Posted on December 5, 2016
If you want to get a notification a few days before an important contract expires or a document is due, you can make an event reminder with the Office 365 Alerts app. It is done with several simple steps.
Posted on December 5, 2016
Virto Forms app is a web based forms designer with which you can customize SharePoint list item forms and make them easier to use. Watch the video overview to learn about the Forms Designer features.
Posted on December 5, 2016
SharePoint Online Virto Forms app is a web based form designer that allows users to customize out-of-the-box list item forms making them much more user-friendly. Learn how to create a SharePoint list form.
Posted on December 5, 2016
Exchange and SharePoint calendar integration is a much-wanted ability which is available in the Virto SharePoint Calendar web part and Office 365 Calendar app.
Posted on November 28, 2016
Web parts are the basic building blocks of a SharePoint 2013, 2016 and 2019 Page. They help users change content and appearance of SharePoint pages directly. Web parts can be added to zones of a SharePoint page and can then be customized to create a unique page.
Posted on November 28, 2016
SharePoint web parts are intended for performing specific tasks on a SharePoint page, like displaying site content, pictures, search results, and for dozens of other purposes.
Posted on November 28, 2016
The Microsoft SharePoint platform allows users to create intranet websites with the use of multiple templates and SharePoint web parts, which incredibly expand the basic functionality.
Posted on November 22, 2016
The university was searching for a solution that rendered SharePoint “usable” for a huge population of users.
Posted on November 22, 2016
As a result of Virto ONE components implantation, the company achieves new levels of efficiency.
Posted on November 22, 2016
How to send Office 365 calendar reminders based on a list’s date field value. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
A department of University of Alabama at Birmingham needed a simple registration form for its Lunch and Learn events. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
How to create layouts to display certain SharePoint 2013&2016 form fields for predefined users or groups only. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
Send email to employees without ability to unsubscribe Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
Our customer required a possibility to book Outlook meeting rooms from within SharePoint Online. Let’s explore how it was perfored with Virto Office 365 calendar app. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
Create alert to track field changes and ensure any important events are not missed Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
Outlook meeting room schedules can be combined with calendar events into a single view. Here is described the relevant customer case with Virto Calendar app. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
VirtoSoftware provided The University of Alabama at Birmingham with a solution for conference room reservation with approvement. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
How to migrate lists in SharePoint Online with Virto Backup & Recovery tool Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
As example, you can add a link to client card view form from lookup field in your alert Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
Design the custom SharePoint form for user requests, feedback, lead generation on any SharePoint site. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 22, 2016
The simple solution to add events from a SQL database to Office 365 calendar Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
How to display a project name instead of a task name on cards of Virto Kanban Board app for SharePoint Online. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Requests processing from the company’s public site Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
A single view to collect the latest updates from distinct project sites Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
How to create a SharePoint form with color-coded tabs Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
How to create SharePoint form with tabs and “Next” button to advance to the next tab Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Accelerate your sales cycle by using a set of powerful Virto tools for sales automation. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Given the right tools, automating operations can be surprisingly easy, transparent, cost effective and eliminate manual errors. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Operate and support an organization’s IT infrastructure efficiently and securely with a smart IT department processes automation. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Human resources automation reduces time spent on administrative work and makes the working day less stressful for everyone. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Virto multifunctional tools provide simplicity, efficiency and accuracy for companies that want true visibility into their operations. Request a free consultation
Posted on November 21, 2016
Last week, we have the pleasure to take part as a sponsor at the ESPC 2016, the largest SharePoint conference in Europe.
Posted on July 20, 2016
SharePoint email use cases are very diverse depending of business requirements. You may want to send a notification or SharePoint e-mail for any of a wide variety of purposes.
Posted on June 9, 2016
Company-wide calendars with multiple users may be difficult to read without markers distinguishing calendar items and events. A common and simple way to organize SharePoint calendars is by color-coding event categories. Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto offers a wide range of vibrant colors to color code any event or meeting in your personal or group...
Posted on April 30, 2016
Originally, the Kanban method was implemented at Toyota plants to improve manufacturing efficiency – as a tool for Just-in-Time manufacturing.
Posted on April 27, 2016
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.
Posted on April 13, 2016
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.
Posted on April 5, 2016
Multiple file upload to SharePoint is a common issue that puzzles either SharePoint version users. We come across lots of claims about SharePoint upload for multiple documents is not working.
Posted on March 21, 2016
Sharing calendars in Office 365 with co-workers and external users is an everyday thing in business and corporate communications. Microsoft Office 365 provides a number of solutions for calendar sharing and creating Office 365 group calendar. You might consider using third-party apps like Calendar Overlay Pro to overlay multiple group calendars in one place.
Posted on November 29, 2015
Getting lost in SharePoint terminology? Check out the complete SharePoint Glossary.
Posted on November 23, 2015
We just released a new SharePoint 2013 workflow activity for our Virto SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit. Now you can Convert InfoPath to PDF using SharePoint Workflow.
Posted on July 23, 2015
This is short, but extemly useful post for developers who is using Visual Studio 2015 in their work. Here you can download Go To Definition plugin for Visual Studio 2015.
Posted on July 20, 2015
A SharePoint calendar can contain multiple items and be shared among multiple users with permission to edit. In this blog post, we have prepared a list of SharePoint views you can use and simple tips to create them. Read on to see how you can create and apply different SharePoint views for various purposes.
Posted on July 15, 2015
Why do users want to sync SharePoint calendar with Outlook? The ability of viewing a SharePoint calendar in Outlook prevents users from excessive navigation between calendars located at different sites. With Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto you can overlay multiple calendars in a single place of your choice, and then add them as a separate tab in...
Posted on July 14, 2015
SharePoint Calendar overlay feature allows users to merge multiple calendars sourced from different SharePoint lists in order to display all the events in a single view.
Posted on May 28, 2015
SharePoint 2013 workflows help to organize and automate a wide variety of consistent business processes.
Posted on April 2, 2015
Search is a one of the most important topics in SharePoint usage. However, it is often overlooked, especially in small projects or at initial project planning stages.
Posted on March 19, 2015
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.
Posted on January 13, 2015
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.
Posted on September 1, 2014
This article describes how to adjust cross-browser Drag&Drop of files from your computer to SharePoint Document Library with help of Virto Bulk Upload.
Posted on December 20, 2011
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.
Posted on January 27, 2011
This post describes SharePoint Taxonomy field.
About the author 
Tatiana Sushchenko is the product owner at VirtoSoftware. She started her IT career with the famous ABBYY Lingvo back in 2006 in Moscow. Then she moved to Microsoft performing strongly in various marketing management roles across Visio, SharePoint, Office 365 and Project for almost 10 years. Tatiana is a graduate of the Institute of Business Studies and holds a mini-MBA degree. She also graduated from Microsoft marketing excellence university.