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Meet the New Virto Resource Manager SPFx VirtoSoftware team is happy to announce that the Virto Resource Manager app is ready to use! The app is available in the Microsoft App Store for download and installation. To start using Virto Resource Manage on modern SharePoint site pages, download the app and add it to the chosen site. Please find the detailed instruction in the How to Add a Virto Modern Web Part to your SharePoint Site blog post. ...

This article describes how you can add any Virto modern web part to your SharePoint site. Follow the steps we offer and enjoy the SharePoint modern experience with Virto Modern web parts. How to add Virto Modern web part VirtoSoftware provides the use of modern web parts for SharePoint. You can see how to add any Virto modern web part to your SharePoint site. The example is for the Virto Calendar Modern web part. But the procedure is absolutely the same for other Virto modern web parts. You can find all the direct links for downloading SPKKG files. ...

Virto Kanban Board App for Office 365 and MS Teams supports using custom SharePoint list as a data source. See how you can choose and adapt a custom SharePoint list for the Kanban board. Quick Board and Custom List Virto Kanban Board app uses SharePoint list as a data source of the board. There are two ways to create a new board. The first one is a quick board. In this case, the SharePoint list is created automatically with all the fields required for the proper work of your Kanban Board. But there are many cases when you need a custom SharePoint list to create a new board. Or you’re using multiple lists and would like to make sure all of them Certainly, you can use a Task list that already contains all the required fields. But if your source list is not of that type, you still can use the Virto Kanban Board successfully. We’ll tell you how. ...

Virto Kanban Board App for O365 now supports creating boards from templates. Learn how to save a template correctly and how to create a new board from a template. We are happy to announce the update of the Virto Kanban Board for Office 365 and Teams. This update brings the ability to create a new Kanban board from a template you saved before. Why use a template? Templates help you to create Kanban boards using a pre-configured data structure and skip the huge part of the manual fill-in process. There are lots of cases when using a template is essential: from aircraft design and opening a new branch to application release or onboarding a new team member. When the scheme is the same and all you need to change is the data for the new board, the use of templates is the best way to start working. You load the previously saved file and customize it to fit your situation by changing descriptions, adding new assignees, and setting reminders to keep you and your team up to date on what’s happening. ...

VirtoSoftware is announcing the update of the Virto Kanban Board web part for SharePoint. Find the incredible new features for rapid work with Kanban Board! Today’s update of the Virto Kanban Board on-premise brings tools to speed up working with your boards. Save your time with new features provided by the VirtoSoftware team and enjoy. What’s New Change Swimlane Field on the Board We have added the ability to switch swimlane fields right on the board. You had to open board settings to change the swimlane field in previous versions of the web part. We have changed that. Now you can change a swimlane field right on the board: just choose the field from the dropdown. Use this simple option when you need to group displayed tasks in a different way. For example, you normally view tasks on the board by Project. And sometimes you need to change make analysis by Assignee. switch between swimlane fields in a single click! Also, we have added the ability to collapse the swimlanes. Click the collapse icon on the top tools bar. For example, when you have multiple swimlanes and need to view them all at once. ...

We have updated the Virto Calendar app. See how you can use the Status field for tooltip and event view. Free/Busy Status in Online Calendar Sharing Calendar to colleagues, partners, your manager and etc. requires one simple feature. It is essential to let others see when you’re busy or free for scheduling an event. This is an especially useful option when there are many calendars unified in a single calendar. And making sure everyone can attend may take time. VirtoSoftware apps for Office 365 and MS Teams are always intended to save your time for more important matters. That is why we have added the Free/Busy option to Virto Calendar App. Now you can see how it works. ...

The new feature for charts of the Virto Kanban Board Online App is already available for use. Check for the new options and how you can apply them. VirtoSoftware has just updated the Virto Kanban Board App for Office 365 and MS Teams. With this update, the Kanban app is providing the ability to turn off charts for the current board and set the permission to view charts. How to View Chart Report of Your Board As you remember, every Kanban board supports visual reports that you can generate automatically in the “Charts” block. To load charts, you need to clock “Open charts” in the top right corner. Five reports appear on the screen according to the data actual for the current moment. All you need is to choose the time period and unit. The charts are: ...

See the new how-to video for the Virto Calendar App. We will show you how you can add a new data source to the Virto Calendar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtK2rYGXTds In this video, we will show you how you can add a new data source from a SharePoint list to your Virto Calendar. To add a new data source to your Virto Calendar, you need to click “Edit calendar”, and then click “Create new SharePoint data source”. ...

We have added the updated overview of the Virto Calendar App to our YouTube channel. Watch and see the basic features of Virto Calendar Overlay for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. https://youtu.be/UYqYvYLhHiU?si=ANyGv_PLeRNIgXgD Virto Calendar is a perfect tool to make a calendar overlay and merge events from Outlook, SharePoint lists, public folders, Microsoft Planner, and other data sources in a single view. Color-coded Calendar In this Virto Calendar, events from Outlook are color-coded as blue, and events from SharePoint lists are marked with other colors. ...

The latest update of the Virto Calendar app provides new options for the location field. Also, now you can use the Virto Mini Calendar web part on modern SharePoint sites. See the post to get more details. Virto Calendar App: Location Field VistoSoftware has just updated the Virto Calendar App for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. Now the Virto Calendar supports adding locations from the list of available ones. To choose a location for your calendar entry, just select the one from the list in the calendar settings. This option helps to save the location field for Outlook entries as well. Tech note: to make the option work, please, reinstall Calendar Authorization App in your tenant AD. This is important because we have added one more delegated permission to read tenant places. Also, you should re-add the calendar authorization app in your Azure AD enterprise applications. (Only a global tenant administrator has the right to re-add it). ...

Please follow this simple instruction if you need to install the SPFx custom app. Sometimes you may need to use a custom app by VirtoSoftware. In this case, the installation process differs from the classic one. Follow the steps below to install the custom app to your SharePoint site. Step 1. Click “Download” to save the app to your device (download the sppkg file from our website). Note: To install a custom app to your Office 365 tenant you will need SharePoint admin permissions. If you don’t have the admin permissions, please contact your SharePoint admin. Step 2. Now go to the SharePoint Admin interface to install the custom app for your tenant. Step 3. Find the “Apps” section and upload the downloaded file to your Apps catalog. Step 4. Enable the installed app to add and use on all sites. Step 5. Then Allow to use it in Teams: Teams Admin Center — Teams apps — Manage apps. Now you can add the app to your site. ...

Introduction The importance of business intelligence is rather hard to overestimate, and this statement could be applied to pretty much any industry out there. SharePoint is not an exception to this rule, and it’s also easy to see how companies showed lots of interest in SharePoint reporting as a feature in recent years. As with any similar situation on the market, the increase in popularity of SharePoint reporting tools led to an entire market of SharePoint reporting becoming more active. Newer solutions are getting developed and compete for the customer’s attention, and older, existing solutions implement newer features to keep up with the demand, as well as with the competition. ...