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Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto offers fast and smooth integration with Microsoft Teams. Integrating Calendar Overlay Pro is vital for Microsoft Teams users as it ensures a convenient workflow: it speeds up event creation, as data no longer needs to be entered several times in different applications, and it removes the need to check multiple calendars to avoid overlaps when creating a meeting. This is why we always strive to improve the user experience and simplify the working process of our Microsoft Teams calendar app. ...

Calendar Overlay Pro for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams supports a crucial feature for any contemporary work calendar - recurring events. Nowadays, everyone has repeating events, such as weekly team meetings, sprint debriefings, and team-wide sync meetings, in their work schedule, so this Calendar Overlay Pro feature will make your planning a lot easier! You don’t need to manually and repeatedly add these recurring events. Instead, you can set up recurring events in a couple of clicks; there is a wide range of conditions for recurring events, and you can easily automate the creation of events according to these conditions. ...

Gantt Chart App for SharePoint Online is now available in Microsoft App Store. Find something new in our article! A couple of months ago, we released the updated version of the Virto SharePoint Gantt Chart on-premises. This time we are ready to show Gantt Chart Online App. Introduction Today people all over the world can use the Gantt chart as a method of efficient task management. Modern tools allow users to automate creating such a diagram in a couple of minutes. As a result, managers and stakeholders can instantly get an informative and clear picture of any project in a Gantt chart view. Gantt Chart App for Office 365 by VirtoSoftware was designed to provide the classic logic of task management for Microsoft SharePoint users. The app takes data from a custom SharePoint list (or multiple lists) and generates the tasks tree view. Users only need to check that start and end dates are chosen for each task in the source list. ...

Virto Calendar App for Microsoft Teams and Office 365 supports adding iCalendar feeds to your Virto Calendar view. Read in our article how you can do this. What is iCalendar Feed for? An iCalendar feed or .ics feed is a unique calendar format you can use to work with most calendar solutions. Its key purpose is to share calendar data between different calendars and calendar applications. Virto Calendar supports adding events from Outlook, SharePoint lists, public folders, and Microsoft Planner, but that’s not all. You also can add events from Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, or other calendars supporting iCal feeds with the help of the iCalendar link. ...

Virto apps are easy to install. But what if you need a few more steps to finalize installation? Read in our simple blog post. Or watch the video below. https://youtu.be/kgMbGEJyPLM You never have to spend much time on the installation before using the Virto App. Virto Kanban Board, Calendar Overlay, O365 Alerts, and many others need just a few steps to install. Moreover, you can install and add some Virto Apps directly from Microsoft Teams. ...

Introduction Previously VirtoSoftware has released an update of 365 Alerts Online App. This new simple feature was highly desired by our customers. And this is hardly surprising because the ability to use it pretty much enlarges the alert system functionality. We are talking about the use of tags with links and adding clickable items to alerts and reminders. Now, this feature is also available for on-premise users. Tags with Links Using tags with links added to an alert or reminder stays requisite when you need to send something clickable to recipients. It could be a clickable line in a table, simple text, or an image. The most valuable point is that this “something clickable” changes according to the conditions you specify for the alert. For example, a team of designers has a SharePoint list where they keep working on banners. And they would like to send an alert with a banner preview image and link to the full-size banner every time it is approved by the senior designer. Certainly, the banner is new every time the recipient receives an alert. And there is no need to paste it manually to the message, Virto Alerts and Reminders web part makes it automatically. You just have to tune it the right way. We’ll show you how. ...

Board Notifications Virto Kanban Board web part for SharePoint 2019 is ready to use with its updated functionality. First, we have prepared a new option for board administrators. Now it is possible to adjust a board notification message as you wish. How to tune the alert message? Go to the settings block under the gear icon on the left top corner. And then find the “Virto Kanban Task Manager settings” under the “Site Administration”. ...

We’re offering an example of Virto Project Portfolio Manager use. Study the use case and decide how you can apply Project Portfolio Manager tools to your business. Introduction Working on multiple projects at the same time is a classic practice for most businesses. It is challenging to control all the projects and consider strategic objectives, complex planning, and managing resources. But if you succeed, you get the benefits. The project portfolio management approach allows portfolio managers to optimize resource planning and use them more efficiently across all the projects. As a result, you fully enjoy the method’s advantages: ...

With Virto Alerts App for SharePoint Online, you can add variable images and links to them to corporate notifications. Here is the use case. As you know, with the latest update, Virto Office 365 Alerts App supports complex links. This means that Alerts users now can add variable clickable elements to alerts and reminders. This is an especially valuable feature when we speak about images in alerts. Previously, you could add images to alerts as a constant visual element. Just a picture. Now the image changes automatically depending on the source SharePoint item. For example, you wish to alert about the newly added image, and the notification inserts this image to the email. Moreover, the image is clickable. Today we offer a simple use case of O365 Alerts with complex links. We also are going to send the alert to the Teams channel. Let’s start! ...

Office 365 Alerts App by VirtoSoftware now provides an incredible ability to add variable images and URLs to notifications. Today we’re telling how you can involve this new option in your business. Introduction Virto Office 365 Alerts App is your assistant for keeping your SharePoint team in the loop in a few clicks. You specify a trigger for an automatic alert, for example, when someone changes a SharePoint list item, and the chosen group of users (or a single user) receives the notification. The filling of an alert also goes from your head and O365 Alerts features provide you with almost unlimited capabilities. Add tables, change the design, use templates and follow the idea of a perfect notification system with our flexible solution. ...

You can add the Virto Resource Manager SPFx App to Microsoft Teams and use it as a separate tab. Here is the guide we’ve prepared. Please take a look! Microsoft Teams app currently has 270 million daily active users. Over 500,000 organizations use Microsoft Teams as their default messaging platform (Todd Bishop posted in Geekwire News article). That is why the VirtoSoftware team pays much attention to team users. We keep on adding more Virto SharePoint apps to be used in Microsoft Teams. Our customers are already using Virto Calendar Overlay and Virto Kanban Board apps in Teams as separate tabs. Now it’s the turn of Virto Resource Manager SPFx app. ...

Previously we’ve told you about the ability to use board templates in Virto Kanban Board App. Please see the Virto Kanban Board App: Use Templates to Create Boards post. Now we are ready to provide the same magic ability for Virto Kanban Board On-Premise. With this update, the Kanban Board web part (including SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019) supports templates. How to save a Kanban board as a template? First, navigate to​​​​ List Setup block of your board settings. The three options are available: ...