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Last week, we have the pleasure to take part as a sponsor at the ESPC 2016, the largest SharePoint conference in Europe. We were proud to present our recently launched solutions for Office 365 and SharePoint on premise. In addition to meeting with attendees, our existing and new customers, we have enjoyed the event. We were excited when people stopped by our booth to have photo with Virtoman, say thanks for Virto products and for Virto support services or get the SharePoint Offline Calendar made of paper :) We congratulate the tablet winner and all people who took part in our raffles and won the prizes by Virto! It was a wonderful experience to attend the ESPC in Vienna. And we would like to thank the organizers of this event for the great coordination, you have been wonderfully responsive to our requests! Also, we thank other participants and attendees, we really enjoyed the atmosphere! And of course we are excited to return to ESPC next year! Sincerely yours, Virto team!

Virto Calendar for SharePoint Online was expanded with several features. Now the calendar is printable and we have added Full Details form. Here we provided a use case on how to display Outlook event location in Google via a link from your SharePoint calendar event. Now, the Virto Office 365 Calendar app is available for printing. Open the Settings dropdown in the right upper corner and click “Print”. Done! You can print your current calendar view without any issues. When using Internet Explorer, you need to perform a simple set up before printing a calendar. Open Print Preview options in a browser and tick the “Print Background Colors and Images” checkbox, then select Landscape paper orientation. Save settings, and now your calendar is available for printing. Another feature is a full form for an event creation. You can use as always the good old Virto Office 365 calendar’s small form to add a new event with two clicks. To utilize the new form, click “full details” in the short form to display the full Virto Calendar create form. And the last, but not least smart option is viewing the Outlook event location with Google maps right through a link in Virto Office 365 calendar event details. For example, you have created an event in Outlook with a certain location. Next, you can display this Outlook event in Virto Office 365 calendar. (Learn more how to overlay Exchange Online calendar and Office 365 calendar) You can see the event location as a link in Office 365 calendar view form. After clicking on this link you will be redirected automatically to Google maps. So you can find your way to the event location for sure. You can download and try Virto Office 365 Calendar with all new features for free. ...

SharePoint 2013 Forms Designer by Virto is evolving constantly, so we have added to this web part the custom form views for distinct usersgroups. This means, now you can create several custom form views for the same SharePoint list and assign permission view types for distinct users. For example, you can design edit/create/display views of the same form with minor changes for distinct departments of your company. If defined conditions allow user to have access to several views, the view with highest access priority will be displayed. And you still can apply distinct fields view permissions to every custom view of Virto SharePoint Forms Designer. You can learn more about SharePoint Forms Layouts on our site or download the free trial of SharePoint Forms Designer for SharePoint 2013&2016. ...

The issue of SharePoint Password Change with changing passwords after installing Microsoft Updates KB3167679 and/or KB3177108​​​​ is fixed. Also, the latest update of SharePoint Password Change is coming with captcha feature. Now you can allow users to change or reset their password in SharePoint 2016 and 2013 safe and easy. SharePoint Password Change enables Active Directory (AD) users and users with general accounts (FBAP) to change passwords themselves when they are logged onto SharePoint site. The same captcha feature was released in latest update of SharePoint Password Reset . This web part allows any user logged in to the SharePoint portal to reset his Active Directory or FBA password without contacting administrator. You can download both SharePoint password management web parts for SharePoint 2016, 2013, 2010 or 2007 separately or use the complete Virto SharePoint Administration Suite with great discount. ...

UPDATE: The issue of SharePoint Password Change with changing passwords after installing Microsoft Updates KB3167679 and/or KB3177108​​​​ is fixed. It is impossible for now to change user password with Virto SharePoint Password Change web part because of Windows Update on our server. Microsoft support response: The root cause of this issue is understood. We plan to release a fix that resolves this issue in October 2016. This release date is subject to change. This article will be updated with additional details as they become available. Virtosoftware apologizes for any inconvenience caused by current situation.

The Virto Kanban Board app for SharePoint Online became even better with a major update. We added several awesome features and slightly changed the board view for expanded swimlane functionality. Now any swimlane is collapsed by default if it does not contain any tasks. Also, you can adjust Kanban to automatically collapse all selected swimlanes when you are opening your Kanban Board. The new total option for swimlanes is intended to count the amount of tasks in chosen columns of a swimlane. You can check the required columns that will be used to calculate the total tasks amount in this swimlane. In the following example the total count of tasks for “Low” swimlane is 5. The column “Not started” was not included in calculation. Another feature allows you to replace Kanban edit form with default SharePoint form while using Virto Kanban as app part. A new option of Task title field customization was added. It is not necessarily to select task name field for Kanban task title, you can choose any other field to display it on your Virto Kanban Board card! In this example, the Title field of item and Title field that was chosen for displaying on task body have the same list field. In this example, the Title field of item is an actual task name. And the Title field for displaying on task body contains the value from column “Project”. You can download theVirto Kanban Board App latest version or try all its new features in 30-days free trial! ...

Discover the latest update of Virto Office 365 alerts add-in, designed to enhance your reporting experience by allowing you to merge multiple alerts into one comprehensive report with a single table. This feature proves particularly beneficial when creating daily or weekly reports, as it consolidates all list changes into one table, eliminating the need to sift through numerous individual messages. Experience a more streamlined reporting process with this innovative update. Why Use Office 365 Alerts Experience the numerous advantages of merging multiple alerts into one report with a single table. This approach streamlines your reporting process and enhances your productivity. Here are some key benefits you can expect: ...

SharePoint calendar web part by Virto was updated for SharePoint 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. You get many new features for managing Exchange calendars inside SharePoint. Color-coding Exchange Calendar Categories Virto Calendar web part allows you to color-code Exchange calendar events according to their categories from Exchange. This feature is available for Virto calendars for SharePoint 2010, 2013 and 2016. For example, I need to add the category named “Blue categorie” to Virto calendar. Open “Advanced settings” of Exchange calendar data source, select “Category” field and click “Add new field value and color”. Then type in the name of required category from Exchange (names must be identical). Select a color for this category, it may match exactly the color from Exchange. You can add other categories with custom colors in the same way. On the screen below you can see the example of event from green category. SharePoint 2013 calendar web part and SharePoint 2016 calendar have been updated to v. 8.4.0. ...

Office 365 Alerts add-in by Virto has new feature for receiving an alert email about any changes in a specific field. Office 365 Alerts allows SharePoint Online users to always be on schedule, effectively work on their tasks and ensure any important events are not missed anymore. Now you can adjust SharePoint Online alerts for the following cases: Anything changes; Anything changes in a certain list field; Someone else changes an item; Someone else changes an item created by me; Someone else changes an item last modified by me; Someone changes an item that appears in the following view; Use custom condition. Virto SharePoint Alerts Add-in for Office 365 sends alerts and notifications from SharePoint Online via email and builds a flexible notification system on your SharePoint site. You can try all features of Virto SharePoint Online alerts in the 30-days fully free trial. ...

Office 365 Forms Designer by Virto has new abilities for customization of space between SharePoint Online form elements. Now you can design your custom Office 365 forms with more detailed tuning. Line spacing adjustment can be found in General Settings on the ribbon of Office 365 Forms Designer. This spacing value will be applied to all elements of your SharePoint Online form. Another option is the White Space control. This feature allows you to set space between horizontal elements and between vertical elements as well. ...

Here is the showcase of how to proceed list migration across SharePoint Online site collections with the Virto Backup & Recovery solution. The starting point of the list migration process is like that: Save the required SharePoint list as a template (List settings -> Save list as template); Download the saved template from the List Template Gallery; In List Template Gallery, upload the list to the site collection, that is supposed to restore the list. Note that the method works properly only if a SharePoint Online list does not contain the “Person” and “Lookup” column types. The “Person” column may be restored, but its values may fail to correspond to the original list. The “Person” column’s values are stored as 19; #User Name (where “19” refers to ID User, and “User Name” refers to a username) and restored by their ID. User ID is unique within one site collection. That is why, when transferring a list to other site collection, the ID value may appear to be assigned to a different user, or not found at all. ...

Office 365 Workflow Activities Kit by Virto is finally here! We are happy to announce the first bunch release of our custom workflow activities for SharePoint Online. Over 25 Office 365 workflow activities for sending e-mails, list processing, permissions processing, dealing with documents, attachments and many other activities are available for download. Following Office 365 workflow activities are ready for now: Administration Actions Create SharePoint group Delete SharePoint group Email processing ...