Productivity

When a change happens to an important business process, you need to be informed in time. Though SharePoint alerts may be enough for some cases, Virto Alerts and Reminders app offers a wider range of features both for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users. Receive email notifications according to an adjusted schedule, track projects and task changes, define recipients list, customize email body as you wish and save templates, and send alerts to instant messengers — this is only a short part of the whole features list. ...

Imagine a huge IT company rapidly transferring all business online. All business, all the business units. Including all those who did not work from home before. I was looking at such a company from a rather close distance and I recall people trying to set the meetings in WebEx, Zoom, Skype, and god knows what else simultaneously. While having Teams as a corporate communication platform. I have nothing bad to say about the WebEx, but here goes the first rule of remote work. ...

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. Whatever the SharePoint version, the calendars integration and related settings are very similar. How to Sync Office 365 Calendar in Microsoft Outlook First, create a new SharePoint calendar or select one of your existing Office 365 calendars to sync with Outlook. ...

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 collaboration of a team working on a specific project. SharePoint alerts can be created to track newly added items or accidentally deleted files in a library. You have a variety of options to apply SharePoint alerts in your business processes, but it is a question of limited flexibility of default SharePoint alert triggers that may not always meet specific requirements. ...

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. To start using the app or the web part, you need first to add it into your SharePoint Site. Once you have added an Exchange calendar to SharePoint, you get a number of handy abilities: You can manage events in SharePoint Online calendar, and have the changes reflected in your Exchange calendar. You can book Exchange meeting rooms and send out meeting invitations to SharePoint users, Exchange email addresses, and any external addresses. It becomes possible to overlay all your events from SharePoint Online calendars, Exchange Online calendars, including shared calendars and meeting rooms, in a single SharePoint calendar. Adding Exchange Online Calendars Open the Virto Calendar settings page at your SharePoint site and check the required boxes opposite the listed options. Now you can view your Exchange calendars in SharePoint. ...

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. Web parts can be used to consolidate data from various sources into dynamic information and display in an organized and useful way. Usually a number of Web Parts are bundled and available along with different editions of SharePoint. They can also be purchased from third-party vendors. ...

Calendar overlays in SharePoint are a powerful tool that allows you to combine multiple calendars into one unified dashboard, simplifying event and schedule management for teams. By merging personal, team, and corporate calendars, overlays improve scheduling efficiency and ensure everyone stays on the same page. In this article, you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to overlay calendars in both SharePoint Online, with its streamlined interface and Exchange Online integration, and SharePoint On-Premises, which requires an on-premises server setup. We’ll also explore additional customization options. ...

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. To allow the selection of items, use the checkbox Enable multiple selections Select the facet category that will be used as a key and the facet category that will be used as a value. These keys and values can be used in JavaScript code. Every item will have a button that will make this item checked after clicking it (or unchecked, in case of a second click) The text of the button has to be entered in the Action field. Tooltips can be entered in the Description field. A tooltip will be displayed when pointing the mouse on the button. The quantity of selected items is shown on the toolbar. In order to cancel the selection of items, use the button (red cross icon) opposite the Selected: field.