Ways to Customize SharePoint Calendar

Many users in a company utilizing SharePoint environment get their feet dipped into the pool of SharePoint for nothing else than managing some lists and calendars. Because calendaring is always handy on the company, department, and individual level. The SharePoint calendars are displayed as regular calendars, lists, worksheets, and charts with requiring very little or zero customization. The dates can easily be filtered or multiple calendars can be overlaid to form the perfect combination into a custom view. Also, it becomes very easy to manage schedules by day, week, or month, or even create and customize SharePoint calendar views. ...

January 31, 2018 · 4 min · Sergi Sinyugin

How to Set Up a SharePoint Calendar for Teams

https://youtu.be/vFG4leSJs2s?si=jdWDFLb-m3UtcF3- SharePoint Calendar is a smart and multi-purpose tool capable of solving most of the organizational and collaborative matters which every team faces. We are going to overview two ways of creating a SharePoint calendar for teams - using SharePoint OOTB options and Virto Calendar Overlay app. A SharePoint calendar (or SharePoint calendar) for teams is based on a Group calendar and provides all the required options and settings for multiple-user access. The group calendar enables team members to stay informed of their co-workers’ availability, collaborative events, and shared resources availability. SharePoint calendar makes teamwork much easier. Check out the guide on how to create a group calendar if needed. ...

January 31, 2018 · 5 min · Sergi Sinyugin

Sharing a SharePoint Calendar

SharePoint Calendar helps keep companies organized and informed of what is going on inside its walls. Many organizations use SharePoint shared calendars for managing their conference rooms and other resources, such as equipment and transport. So, let’s explore how to share a calendar in SharePoint Online step-by-step. Before you start: Before you start configuring a group calendar, you should ensure you have Full Permissions and Access rights. To check if you have appropriate permissions, click Site Contents > Settings > Users > Site Permissions. Create a Calendar on a Public Site, so that each team member could access the group calendar placed on the SharePoint site. If a calendar is missing on your team site, create a calendar by clicking the “+ New” button, and enter all the required details. ...

January 30, 2018 · 3 min · Sergi Sinyugin

How to Sync Office 365 Calendar with Outlook

It takes only seconds to sync an Office 365 calendar with Outlook so that you can view SharePoint and Outlook calendars combined in one place. And with Calendar Overlay Pro you can extend the functionality of your calendars with color-coding, recurring events and finally, overlay as many calendars as you need. Whatever the SharePoint version, the calendars integration and related settings are very similar. How to Sync Office 365 Calendar in Microsoft Outlook First, create a new SharePoint calendar or select one of your existing Office 365 calendars to sync with Outlook. ...

January 29, 2018 · 1 min · Sergi Sinyugin

How to Add Outlook Calendar to SharePoint. Sharepoint Outlook Calendar Integration.

The SharePoint platform allows us to connect a SharePoint calendar to Outlook, and manage the imported calendar in the Outlook interface as easy as in the native environment. As for the vice versa integration, the right method is supposed to exist, though it does not work correctly, as it is expected. You can google for a solution to the Outlook-to-SharePoint integration issue, and even try implementing it if you enjoy things happening in a hard way. ...

January 29, 2018 · 2 min · Sergi Sinyugin

How to Create a SharePoint Calendar: Step-by-Step Tutorial

How to Add a Calendar from SharePoint In this SharePoint tutorial, you will learn the convenient way of incorporating a calendar into SharePoint Online. Rather than using the traditional approach of using a calendar web part that is no longer available, we will show you how to display a SharePoint Online list in a calendar view (in both classic and modern SharePoint Online). Using this method, any entries added to the SharePoint Online list will automatically appear on the corresponding calendar. ...

January 29, 2018 · 14 min · Sergi Sinyugin

How to Display Meeting Rooms in Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 provides a better solution for displaying a conference room calendar: you do not have to create and configure a company shared calendar to make that happen. Creating Office 365 Meeting Room Calendar To accomplish the process, you need to access the Office 365 Admin Center. There, navigate to the Meeting rooms tab to view the existing rooms’ list and the management options. Each Office 365 meeting room has its name and an email address which is used for booking. You can add a new meeting room calendar by clicking on the “+” button, and specify the room’s details, like Name, Email address, Room capacity, Room location, and Phone number. Now, you can check the newly created meeting room availability among the other ones on the list. In your Office 365 calendar, create an event and book the conference room directly from the calendar by clicking the Add room. ...

January 22, 2018 · 2 min · Sergi Sinyugin

How to Share Office 365 Calendars

If you want to share your Office 365 calendar with your co-workers or, say, customers, you can perform that within the Exchange Online or Outlook calendar interface. But first, there should be done the required calendar sharing settings by an Office 365 administrator. Sharing Office 365 Calendars with External Users If you need the people outside your Office 365 environment to view your team members’ calendar availability, you can enable the sharing option within the tenant. As an Office 365 admin, you are supposed to perform the following: ...

January 21, 2018 · 3 min · Sergi Sinyugin

Color Coding a SharePoint List

In order to differentiate various list items and highlight key items, there can be applied a method of SharePoint list color coding. Let’s see how it works in adding colored status dots to a SharePoint report list - we’ll perform that through designating a certain color to each status value. Using a Calculated SharePoint List Column Open or create a SharePoint list that you want to add color coded status to, and go to List > List settings and click the Add a new column option. In the column creation tab, type in the name - Status indicator and select the column type - Choice. In the Choice option box enter the status colors - green, yeallow, red, and press OK. Next, create another column to display the color-coded dots. Enter the field name - Status, and select the field type – Calculated. We need to enter the formula here: ="<DIV style='font-weight:bold; font-size:50px; margin-top: 30px; color:"&[Status Indicator]&";'>•</DIV>" ...

December 8, 2017 · 3 min · Sergi Sinyugin

Virto Kanban Board App Update 11/2017

The Virto Kanban Board for SharePoint Online comes with a new list filter functionality. The option is handy when you manage multiple SharePoint lists on the Kanban board. You can create a condition filter and color-code tasks for a certain SharePoint list. The view filter options available on the Kanban board were extended with list filters. Several distinct filters selected from the menu panel on board use “OR condition”. This means, all tasks matching all the selected filters are displayed on the board. If you have to create a filter with “AND condition”, you can use a complex filter containing several conditions. Download the Office 365 Kanban latest version or try all its new features for free. ...

November 21, 2017 · 1 min · Sergi Sinyugin

Virto Calendar App Update 11/2017

The Office 365 Calendar app by Virto has gained the ability to color code Outlook meeting rooms. With the previous Virto Calendar version, the imported Exchange calendars had default colors. The new app version makes it possible to manually select a color scheme for your meeting room schedules according to your preferences. Changing Colors for Outlook Calendars and Meeting Rooms Related Products: Virto Calendar Overlay Pro App

November 17, 2017 · 1 min · Sergi Sinyugin

New Virto Office 365 Workflow Actions

The Virto Office 365 workflow activities kit was extended with 11 new actions. We have added new workflows for list processing, date and string processing, administration and permission management actions. Here is the freshly baked activity portion: Rename folder Item exists in the list Workflow is running Convert date from local time to UTC Convert date from UTC to local time Get date property Create SharePoint site Set default permission group Set SharePoint group’s owner Decode web text Encode web text The whole set of Virto Office 365 Workflows is available for download on our site. Now, the set contains over 80 SharePoint Designer custom actions. If you have not found a required workflows activity on the list, you may order a tailored activity. VirtoSoftware develops custom SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2010/2013/2016 workflows activities within 2-3 business days. Contact our Support team to request it. ...

November 17, 2017 · 1 min · Sergi Sinyugin