How to Add Microsoft Planner Tasks to a Shared Calendar

Microsoft Planner is a well-known project management app with a wide range of integrations thanks to the capabilities of Microsoft 365. To keep all tasks and deadlines in one place and the team on the same page, it’s important to be able to add everything to a shared calendar. In this article, we’ll look at the features of Microsoft Planner and how to integrate it with the Virto Calendar Overlay App for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. ...

March 19, 2021 · 8 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto O365 Alerts Online Update — How to Apply the High Importance Marker

Virto Office 365 Alerts Online App now allows you to set the high importance marker for your alerts and reminders. If you already use the Virto Alerts App for Office 365, you certainly know that the app sends alerts and reminders from SharePoint Online via email. With the Alerts App, you can create notifications, set event parameters, and save email templates. We recently have updated the Alerts App for O365 and added one more essential feature. Now you can define the alerts and reminders as important ones. This may be used when you need to be sure the recipients receive the message marked as important and will pay enough attention to it. ...

February 25, 2021 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

O365 Summit "Future of Work. Challenges Solved". Where to Watch the Recordings

Missed online Office 365 Summit “Future of Work. Challenges Solved”? What was the lineup and where to watch the recordings, please read, in our post. Last Thursday, February 11th, we hosted the free online summit “Future of Work. Challenges Solved". If you missed the session or would like to watch it again, we have good news for you! We recorded the summit for the benefit of all who could not attend. ...

February 15, 2021 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

Charts of Virto SharePoint Kanban Board for Office 365 — Watch in Our Video

Watch our new video about using charts in the Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Online app for Office 365. In our new video and this short article we’ll show you which charts you can use with the Virto Kanban Board Online app and how you can use them for your analysis: tasks for a certain period; overdue tasks and tasks completed in-time; tasks grouped by assignee; burndown and the work left to do. https://youtu.be/1sLVk5-lf1o?si=RsD5Er5pZEjO06pD ...

February 1, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto SharePoint Kanban Board App for O365 — New Task Completion Chart

Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Online App now allows analyzing the completed tasks. See below how you can do this and what is the benefit. We have updated the Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Online App for Office 365. Just look at what we have added! Now you can use the Completion Chart to analyze the tasks already done by your team. If you have tasks with a due date, the chart shows which of them are completed in time or overdue. Tasks with no due date do not appear in this chart. So when you create and assign tasks, you probably should think about the due date to track it later in this chart. ...

January 22, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Join our Free Office 365 Summit: "Future of work. Challenges Solved."

VirtoSoftware jointly with Microsoft invites you to attend the free summit. Let’s dip into the new way of managing the business in today’s unexpected reality! The year of 2020 made the business world meet the new reality. When we tried to organize the remote work for the quarantine period because of COVID-19, many companies had to admit they are not ready. Challenges So, what were the greatest issues the companies met? ...

January 15, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto SharePoint Forms Designer App — Enjoy Massive Redesign

Virto SharePoint Forms Designer App for Office 365 is updated and already available for use. One more update we would like to share is Virto SharePoint Forms Designer Online Application for Office 365. Now with modern design and improved usability. What is Virto Forms Designer? Forms Designer for Office 365 is an intuitive app for SharePoint Online, that allows you to create highly customized interfaces to SharePoint list items. Let us remember the key features that the Virto Form provides for its users: ...

January 13, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Mini Calendar — Switch to Virto Calendar App with a Single Click

Virto SharePoint Mini Calendar App for Office 365 now allows you to switch to the Virto Calendar App with a single click. How it looks like and what are the benefits, please read, in our post. The Year 2021 we expected so much has just begun. Virtosoftware is already working hard! For sure, we’re going to offer a tone of useful updates this year. Just keep watching. A new year with its new plans is always associated with a calendar. We have updated the Virto SharePoint Mini Calendar App for Office 365. Virto Mini Calendar is a compact view of the same events you overlay in the Virto Calendar App. And sometimes you need to open the Virto Calendar as a more detailed version of your plans. The first way (and the only one up to this update) to do this is adding both Virto Calendar and Mini Calendar apps to a single SharePoint site page. Now you can just click the button in the right top corner to open Virto Calendar and see the whole picture of your events. Thank you for your interest in Virto SharePoint Apps for Office 365. Be on the lookout for our new updates. ...

January 12, 2021 · 2 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Online App — Updated User Guide in German

We have prepared the German version of the user guide for the Virto Kanban Board Online App. Download the manual and find answers to all your questions. Though the VirtoSoftware Support team is always ready to help you when you’re working with the Virto Kanban Board Online App for Office 365, you also can find answers to most questions in the Virto Kanban Board Online App — User and Installation Guide. ...

December 23, 2020 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Web Part — the Updated User Guide in German

The German version of the user guide for Virto Kanban Board web part is already available for you. Please feel free to download the manual and learn more about the product. You know that the VirtoSoftware Support team is always there to assist you when you’re buying or already working with Virto Kanban Board On-premise. In addition, you can download and use Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Web Part — User and Installation Guide. ...

December 22, 2020 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

Winter Special Offer — Standard Support Package 1-Year Worth for Free

Holidays are coming and it’s almost time to jingle-bells. VirtoSoftware would be happy to pretend Santa for a while and make a special winter gift for you. Here it is! Get the 1-year worth Standard Support Package for free right now! How can I get the gift? Get your direct purchase link for any Virto App for O365, SharePoint Web Part, or Virto One package. Complete your order by the end of December 2020. The offer is valid from Wednesday, December 16 to Thursday, December 31.

December 16, 2020 · 1 min · Maria Kosareva

Virto Kanban Board On-Premises — Administration Tools

In this post, we would like to show you some administration tools of the Virto Kanban Board on-premises. You might know some of them, the other ones we will describe below. Virto SharePoint Kanban Board Web Part allows you to take data from a SharePoint task list and visualize its items as a Kanban board. You know that our approach is to offer you the solution you really need. The solution you can tune according to your specific needs. That is why we have decided to make this overview of administration tools and settings. You can use them for the correct work of our product — Virto SharePoint Kanban Board web part. Find the settings block under the gear icon on the left top corner. And then scroll down to the “Virto Kanban Task Manager settings” under the “Site Administration”. The block of administration tools appears. Let’s take a more detailed look at them. ...

December 4, 2020 · 3 min · Maria Kosareva