April 2019: Virto Office 365 Kanban Board Enhancements

Virto Office 365 Kanban Board App was updated with new features. You can display 3 fields in card title, apply improved Work-In-Progress limits. And we’ve added more features and conditions to task notifications and style rules!

More powerful conditions for card styles

We improved condition system for card styles and made it more flexible.

Style rule configuration interface showing "Urgent" task styling with color, border, and conditional formattin

We also added default style rules suggestions which you can enhance or disactivate.

Suggested style rules for Kanban board with four categories: Overdue, DueDate is less than 2 days, High Priority, and Lo

New notifications

The notifications systems was slightly modified and improved. We’ve also added the same enhanced condition system as for style rules, and the new trigger “is modified” was added to conditions.

Conditional filter settings for Due Date with "is modified" and "is equal to @Today" options

There are 3 default notifications informing about new comments.

Notifications settings showing email alerts for kanban board changes with various event types listed

These notifications have predefined email body which you can modify.

Notification settings form for Kanban task comments with customizable email template

You can allow users unsubscribe form these alerts using checkbox “Users can unsubscribe from comments in particular tasks”. In this case, users can enter their email in “Task Watchers” pop-up to unsubscribe from current task notifications.

Task management interface showing to-do list and task watchers panel with user avatars

Important: check settings to make sure you use new conditions options correctly and in full force.

Board access on current site only

We added new option “Make board accessible on the current site only” to restrict access to board.

Board Setup tab showing configuration fields for Virto Kanban Board with name, description, and list selection options.

3 fields for task name

You can put additional information to card title.

Kanban board setup interface showing Task Information and field configuration options for cards and lists.

With new option, you can display 3 fields as each card title

Enhanced WIP limit

We’ve modified Work-In-Progress limits.

WIP limit settings dialog for swimlane restrictions in Kanban board configuration

If WIP limit is exceed, the count in the bottom of the column is highlighted. “Enable WIP restrictions” checkbox blocks adding new tasks in the column with exceeded WIP-limit.