Key Features of Virto Alerts in the New Video

Watch our new video and see key magic features of Virto SharePoint Alerts Online for Office 365 and MS Teams. We have added the new overview video to our channel. Enjoy watching and see the benefits of using Virto Alerts for SharePoint Online and MS Teams. https://youtu.be/M-TfVEhJgt8?si=zEfSVTHcPW0kaHJm Virto Alerts Online sends alerts and reminders from SharePoint via email. The app helps you to build an extremely flexible notification system and expand basic SharePoint alerts. ...

July 27, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Resource Manager Online App: Switch Between Charts

We have updated Virto SharePoint Resource Manager Online for Office 365. Look what we have changed and start using the improved app right now! Virto Resource Manager App for Office 365 helps you to boost the efficiency of SharePoint resource management. The updated Resource Manager is already available for use. Let’s see what we have prepared for you. What’s New Now Resource Manager users can switch between the charts right in the application. Our customers have requested this feature and we are always open to your feedback. So, now you can do this easily with the Virto App. Just choose the chart from the list of available ones on the left. Please do not forget that Virto Office 365 Resource Manager is a part of Virto ONE Cloud. Thank you for your interest in Virto Resource Manager for Office 365. ...

July 14, 2021 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Kanban Board App for Office 365 and MS Teams: Updated Comments

Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Online App now supports rich text format in comments of any Kanban board card and adding images to them. Here we are with the latest update of Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Online App for Office 365! Now the app supports using rich text and adding images to comments. Now you can easily highlight your thoughts on a task and use images to discuss your work with a team right on the Kanban board. ...

July 7, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

MakeSomeBreak for MS Teams – VirtoSoftware Launches New Free App

Meet MakeSomeBreak, the new online app for MS Teams by VirtoSoftware absolutely free. VirtoSoftware releases MakeSomeBreak app for MS Teams. The application is absolutely free. Just find the app in the Teams app catalog and add it to your Teams site. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qvDkbCKmErE What is MakeSomeBreak app? MakeSomeBreak app analyses your schedule in MS Teams calendar and sends blockers to secure your time for breaks. Why We Decided to Create Such an App? We live in a new reality where most organizations have to start working online. Remote work is a good chance to stay active even from home. And when you have meetings back-to-back all day long, you really need a break. But what if have just realized it’s time to have a rest and it’s too late to make it. Because you can’t change your schedule at the last moment. That is why we’ve designed MakeSomeBreaks that helps to plan breaks even forward, so you may be sure you’ll always have a couple of minutes for your caffeine boost before you get back to work. ...

June 28, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

How to Use Virto Calendar Overlay on Mobile

Microsoft Teams is a free communication software that allows you to easily chat and network with your colleagues. It’s a unified communications platform that offers chat, video conferencing, and file storage, among other things. In addition, Microsoft Teams has been designed to integrate with Microsoft 365. Here is a list of the most frequently used Microsoft Teams features: The ability to create separate teams of up to 300 participants and create channels inside each team. A team is designed to bring together people collaborating on a project to complete assigned tasks. Channels are sections within a team that help organize conversations around specific topics and projects, where people can store files and so on. The possibility to exchange all kinds of information in a chat: text messages, documents, photos, and videos. Convenient video conferencing feature without the need to use third-party software. Access to hundreds of extensions of all kinds makes the workflow highly customizable to cover all your team’s needs. Storage of 10GB for the team, with an additional 2GB for each user. The ability to create accounts in various formats for personal use, study, or work. Microsoft Teams has not only a desktop client but also a convenient mobile app to suit contemporary lifestyles and work routines. All the essential functions are inherited from its desktop version, but the look and feel are adapted to smartphones. It’s great for communicating with colleagues on the go and in situations when you are away from your laptop. ...

June 17, 2021 · 8 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Kanban Board On-Premise: Updated Charts for Making Reports

Virto SharePoint Kanban Board web part now has improved charts. Take a look at what we have changed! Not long ago we updated Virto Kanban Board Online and presented the new functionality of charts. Now it’s time for Virto Kanban Board On-Prem! We are happy to announce the update of the Kanban Board web part and present the enhanced reports and charts. When you work with the Virto Kanban Board web part, you need to analyze the results of working on tasks. The easiest way to see if your team is efficient or not is by making reports. Open the Kanban board you’re working with and use the charts icon in the right upper corner. ...

June 9, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Setting Alerts in Kanban Board for Microsoft Teams

Kanban Board Pro for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams allows users to track any changes on the board using Alerts and Reminders app. For example, you can enable the alert when a task has been assigned to a user, so they receive an email alert with a link to the task. Then the user clicks on a link in an email to open the task. Imagine that you have a Kanban board with various training courses for the staff. When the team completes one of the courses, the person in charge moves the corresponding card to the “Completed” column. It would be perfect to congratulate the team on such an occasion and send an automatic alert. ...

May 26, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

Kanban Board Use Case: Collecting Tasks from Multiple Boards and Lists

Virto Kanban Board online application allows the use of multiple SharePoint lists for a single board. How to tune a board with multiple lists — please see our article. Basic Reasons to Use Virto Kanban Board Virto Kanban Board App for Office 365 and MS teams allows users to level up the task management in your company. The app visualizes the tasks from a SharePoint list your team is working with as a classic Kanban board. Also, with the Virto Kanban Board tool, you can group tasks horizontally — in swimlanes. Add flexible reporting with charts, colored tags, quick edit of cards, and filters, and you get the perfect solution for managing tasks. ...

May 11, 2021 · 4 min · Maria Kosareva

Special Price for Educational Organizations

VirtoSoftware provides a special offer for educational organizations. Read more to get the details and see how Virto One Cloud may help the education process. Education Nowadays People all over the world tend to keep working and studying from home. That is the reality for today. Almost every business requires massive reorganization; teach your team to work with new tools and share information remotely. Educational organizations meet the same challenge. They have both organized an efficient working process for the faculty and prepared a comfortable environment for students. ...

April 28, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto SharePoint Online Alerts for O365: Alerts in MS Teams Use Case and Video

How to use Virto SharePoint Alerts online app and add reminders to your MS Teams channel is here in our new use case and video. VirtoSoftware created a very flexible notification system to let you expand the basic SharePoint alerts features. Virto Office 365 Alerts App for SharePoint Online helps users to create alerts and reminders from SharePoint Online and send them via email. You just select a SharePoint list, decide who receives an alert and define the trigger. ...

April 16, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

Permissions of the Virto Calendar Overlay for Office 365 and MS Teams

This article described how the new permissions system for Calendar Online App is organized. Please take a look to learn more about it. Virto Calendar Overlay Pro App helps users to overlay calendars from several data sources. You just tick the Exchange calendars, public folders, or MS Planner tasks to add to your calendar immediately. When you create a shared calendar, you have to concern about security. Large companies with various departments and many calendars do not suppose a calendar overlay available for everyone in the company. There should be users with a larger range of permissions and users with read-only access rights. ...

April 9, 2021 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva

How to Show Microsoft Planner Tasks in Microsoft Teams in Calendar View

The Kanban board is now a synonym of a classic tool for visual project management: buckets with tasks that are widely used by content managers to software developers. But what if you can move these endless tasks from multiple cards into a single calendar? This way, all your to-dos, and in-progress would have even clearer start and end dates, including the exact time. This is also useful if you need to combine both tasks and events in one view to have a complete picture of your personal or your team’s workload. An entire workday at your fingertips! ...

March 31, 2021 · 8 min · Maria Kosareva