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Office 365 workflow activities kit by Virto was expanded with new actions. We added actions for images processing in SharePoint Designer. Now you expand the range of ootb actions with more than 70 custom Office 365 workflow activities by Virto and automate your business processes without coding. The following Office 365 workflow actions were added: Resize Image Resize Image By One Side Resize Image By Percentage An example: You can find a whole list of current Office 365 Workflow activities by Virto on the product page. Also, if you need a specific Office 365 workflow activity and you have not found it in the Virto Office 365 Workflow Activities Extensions set, you can send your request and we will fulfill it shortly (usually within one week). ...

We added functionality to import and export an alert from Office 365 Alerts app to another site collection. Virto Office 365 Alerts app has import/export feature. This option allows you to propagate the same alert from one list to another as well as to a list on other site collection. Learn more about all Office 365 Alerts app features and try free fully functional trial version.

Virto SharePoint Kanban for SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 comes with dramatically boosted performance and centralized settings on board and farm level. SharePoint Kanban for SharePoint On-Premises was optimized and works more stable and faster now. And we’d made it more comfortable for administrators. Now, you can set common settings for Virto Kanban on the board and farm level. It is possible to define default values for new boards or override existing board settings. Any option activated in the column “Override all boards to default” makes the corresponding feature unavailable (grayed out) in the board settings. Virto SharePoint Kanban settings on the site level are available under Site Settings > Site Administration > Virto Kanban Task Manager settings. There are the same options as on the farm level, but there you have an option to inherit values for the farm. ...

Virto Kanban Board Office 365 was updated with boards Recycle Bin, user mentioning in comments, and comments’ content in e-mail notifications. Boards Recycle Bin All deleted Office 365 Kanban boards are imported to Recycle Bin. You can decide later if you want to delete a board completely or to restore it at any moment to check necessary info or continue work with this board. User mentioning in comments If a task requires someone’s attention, you can mention this user by entering @ sign and choosing the name from the search suggestions. A person receives notification about comment to the task, where he or she was mentioned. To enable this feature for a board’s users, you need to activate relevant notification in board settings. ...

SharePoint Calendar app by Virtosoftware was extended with new features for multiday view: event types color coding, ability to select font size and weight, option to select left column width. We have added ability to set colors for SharePoint color coded events in Calendar Overlay Pro App. You can change left column width containing day schedule (hours). We have also added the ability to specify font size and weight for MultiDay views. Learn more about all features of Virto Calendar Overlay Pro App on our site!

Office 365 Alerts and Reminders App was updated with Alert Owner Groups, ability to copy alerts, and more features for message view. Virto Office 365 Alerts app was updated with many useful features. We’ve added support for SharePoint Rich Text+Image and Image Fields. Also added support for conditions with Approval Status fields. Alert copy You can copy an existing alert and modify it. Alert Owner Groups We’ve added alert owner group. There are the SharePoint users who can edit this alert. Usually, only the administrator and the alert creator (owner) have the ability to edit an alert. If an alert owner was fired, only the administrator has access to these alerts, or you can change the alert owner and give permission to edit certain alerts to any other user. ...

Virto Office 365 Kanban Board comes with scroll for columns, search and filters for all boards, notifications by role, and new date picker options. Scroll for columns We made the work with Office 365 Kanban columns more convenient. If a column contains many tasks, it’s length is reduced and scroll appears by cursor hovering. You can scroll the tasks in each column up and down. To scroll the whole board you can use scroll bar on the right or mouse wheel with hovering between columns. ...

Dear customers and prospects, It has been already 2 weeks since the IT security experts from Canada and Saudi Arabia began to warn SharePoint users about the attacks to Microsoft SharePoint servers using the known CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability. According to Microsoft security notice this vulnerability allows the execution of any particular code in the context of the SharePoint application pool and the SharePoint server account. The company has corrected CVE-2019-0604 with the release of patches in February, March and April this year. VirtoSoftware warns clients that in order to avoid these attacks it’s recommended to install the latest security updates on SharePoint servers. If these patches cant be installed, then the servers should be protected using firewall. ...

Virto Office 365 Calendar app can display Internet calendars and has option to show additional fields on events in day, week, workweek, and multisource views. Show Internet calendars We’ve added a new feature to display color-coded iCalendars (Outlook, google, apple, etc) in Virto Office 365 Calendar. The events from these calendars are ReadOnly. Additional fields on events in day, week, workweek, and multisource views You have a new option to show selected fields on event body in day, week, workweek, and multisource views. This feature is available in both Calendar and DataSource settings. You can select any fields to display on event body. Learn more about all features of Virto SharePoint Calendar app on our site!

Office 365 Alerts app was updated with daily, weekly, and monthly reminders, search features, and ability to change “Change Type” of existing alerts. New reminders schedule We have enhanced the schedule system in Office 365 Alerts app. You can send daily, weekly, and monthly reminders, e-mails will be sent as long as conditions met. Queue filters We’ve added alert filters for queue: by name and by date range. Edit alerts’ Change type Now, you can change “Change Type” for existing alerts. ...

Virto SharePoint Kanban for SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 was updated with upgraded conditions, “Field is modified” notification trigger, notifications by user role, suggested cards style rules, and more fields for task title. Upgraded conditions We’ve enhanced SharePoint Kanban conditions and used 2 possible operators to combine several filters. In other words, you can create a complex multi-conditional view with and/or operators included. “Field is modified” notification trigger We’ve added a new condition type for Kanban notifications: “is modified”. Now, you can track any changes of the selected fields. ...

Virto Office 365 Kanban Board App was updated with new features. You can display 3 fields in card title, apply improved Work-In-Progress limits. And we’ve added more features and conditions to task notifications and style rules! More powerful conditions for card styles We improved condition system for card styles and made it more flexible. We also added default style rules suggestions which you can enhance or disactivate. New notifications The notifications systems was slightly modified and improved. We’ve also added the same enhanced condition system as for style rules, and the new trigger “is modified” was added to conditions. There are 3 default notifications informing about new comments. These notifications have predefined email body which you can modify. You can allow users unsubscribe form these alerts using checkbox “Users can unsubscribe from comments in particular tasks”. In this case, users can enter their email in “Task Watchers” pop-up to unsubscribe from current task notifications. Important: check settings to make sure you use new conditions options correctly and in full force. ...