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Good news for you! Virto top components will be available soon on the new SharePoint 2016 platform. We know that many of our clients already plan to move to new SharePoint 2016, that’s why we move with you this way. There is the list of our top SharePoint Web Parts and Add-ins, that will be available for download and installation for SharePoint 2016 in June. SharePoint Worklow activities kit SharePoint Calendar SharePoint Workflow Scheduler SharePoint Kanban SharePoint Gantt SharePoint Bulk File Upload SharePoint Bulk File Download SharePoint Alerts SharePoint Password management components All add-ins and web parts for SharePoint 2016 will be naturally available under Virto ONE License! That’s also means that all Virto ONE clients will be able to migrate to SharePoint 2016 without any additional licensing costs. And here’s another exciting announcement. If you need an urgent release of some specific Virto SharePoint Web Parts for SharePoint 2016 in the short term, feel free to contact us and send your request at support@virtosoftware.com, so we’ll speed up the release of specific product for you. By the end of Summer 2016 all our 50+ products will be available for the new SharePoint 2016.

SharePoint Kanban Board latest update has great features for you! In the latest 1.2.0 version of SharePoint Online Kanban Board we have added new functionality for better SharePoint task management. Notifications Now you can send email notification from SharePoint Online Kanban, when a task has been assigned to user. Also, you can adjust any custom conditions for notifications. For example, you can get alert email when certain task will be completed. ...

Combining SharePoint cross-site collection calendars into one view is now available among the other great features of Virto Calendar App. With the latest update to Virto Office 365 Calendar App, you can have a single calendar for all your calendars from multiple sites. You can create an overlay for each calendar across your SharePoint Online environment, and combine all the overlays into a single overlay view. Overlay Calendar App is a powerful enterprise-class scheduling app for SharePoint Online, that aggregates all your events from cross-site collection calendars and from any SharePoint or Exchange Online (Outlook) calendars, including Exchange Online shared calendars. ...

SharePoint Calendar Web Part can make your work with Outlook calendar in SharePoint 2013 much easier! Now you can display Exchange calendar event attachments in tooltip of Virto SharePoint Calendar web part. The event tooltip box doesn’t leave you much room to explain everything, but now you can use the ability to add attachments to your SharePoint calendar events! You can show documents to co-workers, send files or just announce your company’s party with a pic alike via an event in your SharePoint calendar. Just check the box in web part settings and you will able to download attached files right from the event view. SharePoint Calendar Web Part is intended to show all your events from several data sources including Exchange Calendar, Google Calendar, SalesForce Calendar, SharePoint List, SQL Tables or XML and have different views for your easy navigation and reference in single space. You can have all the events from different data sources displayed in a single SharePoint calendar view, sparing the necessity to switch between multiple views. ...

Virto SharePoint Forms for Office 365 is intended to convert your default SharePoint list forms into compact and stylish custom SharePoint forms with many adjusting options. No more need for continuous SharePoint list scrolling! You can quickly order your data in SharePoint large lists, using SharePoint Forms for Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. Virto SharePoint Forms allows you to add to your SharePoint pages practical, short and impressive forms for invoices, reports, contact information, product details, and whatever else you require. Even an end user is able to easily configure a complex form with ready-to-use controls and customize the form interface. You can chose only few list fields for displaying or apply different views for create, edit, display forms. Also, power users can create personal form design, using additional tools as HTML, Javascript and CSS editors. Additionally, you are able to set user or group permissions to displaying list fields, tabs or accordions sections. And the most exiting of today`s news - Virto SharePoint Forms for Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 are free for a limited time! Download fully featured versions of this solutions on our site and try all awesome features of SharePoint Forms for Office 365 or SharePoint Forms for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010 right now! ...

Originally, the Kanban method was implemented at Toyota plants to improve manufacturing efficiency – as a tool for Just-in-Time manufacturing. Kanban literally means the “signboard” in Japanese, since the system operates with signals to track the replenishment cycle. The system enables people involved in the production-trade cycle to stay informed of the inventory and consumption levels. The Kanban methodology got rooted in IT Project Management due to the high relevance of lean manufacturing values for software development. Here, we find Kanban as an agile framework, that is popular among IT people for its flexibility and visibility. ...

The most common case of SharePoint workflow examples is an approval workflow, when some items or documents in SharePoint 2013 or 2010 require approval from a user or from a list of users. This may be any request related to your business processes, requiring the task completion. What is a SharePoint workflow? The range of SharePoint workflow examples can be really huge. Document management, permissions on the site, list or item level, work with e-mails and e-mail attachments, confirmation of completed steps, automatic assignment of tasks/work are only the few, mostly used SharePoint workflow examples. Many organizations regardless of their size or business processes face time-consuming problems with repetitive tasks. The approving of simple tasks requires often lots of paid hours. SharePoint workflows can help automate document management with all its time spending benefits. The common out of the box workflows in SharePoint 2013 include the following actions types: ...

We have recently added new SharePoint 2013 workflows to our Virto SharePoint Workflow Activities kit, which contains now over 250 custom actions. We extended SharePoint permissions workflows with our new 19 SharePoint 2013 workflows: Stop inhereting permissions on list item/on list/on site. Restore inhereting permissions on list item/on list/on site. Add user to SharePoint group. Check if user is a member of SharePoint group. Get members of SharePoint group. Grant Permission on list item/on list/on site. Remove all list item permissions/all list permissions/all site permissions. Remove permissions from list item/from list/from site . Remove user from SharePoint group. These SharePoint 2013 workflow activities can be used to manage SharePoint permissions in list items, in list or in site. With this set of new SharePoint 2013 workflows you can override or append SharePoint permissions and check users permissions in SharePoint groups. Virto SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit contains over 250 activities for creating custom SharePoint workflows. It allows you to manage SharePoint sites and lists, send e-mail and sms, work with Active Directory groups, set permissions, and more. SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit works in both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. Learn more about all SharePoint 2013 workflow activities on our site! Also, you can check out our Virto SharePoint Workflow Suite, which consists of: SharePoint Workflow Activities kit SharePoint Status Monitor SharePoint Workflow Scheduler This set of tools allows you to manage workflows, using visual, intuitive designed solutions provided with an impressive set of 250+ activities and conditions for creating custom SharePoint workflows. Three web parts are united to work with SharePoint workflows including monitoring and scheduling them into a single bundle. Use collection of over 250 activities, create custom workflows, adjust schedule of workflows running and monitor all of them with Virto tools. All bundle components work in SharePoint 2013, 2010, and 2007. ...

SharePoint Password Reset and Recovery web part is designed for quick and simple resolution of situations when a user forgets their password or the password expires according to password security policy. In such cases, users typically need to contact their AD administrator every time they need to perform a SharePoint password reset or change. Managing user access becomes significantly easier with the SharePoint change password feature, allowing users to securely update their own passwords without administrator intervention. ...

Your Office 365 calendar can be accessible in a public area but it is required administrator support to configure the corresponding settings. You can also do the opposite: display any external calendar that supports iCal data sources using Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto. https://youtu.be/eUd2MfF7Gcg The “Let people in your organization use a public URL to share their calendars” option must be enabled in the “External sharing” tab of Office 365 Admin Center. ...

Multiple file upload to SharePoint is a common issue that puzzles either SharePoint version users. We come across lots of claims on SharePoint upload for multiple documents is not working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUcMT0dfb8 Bulk upload to SharePoint is a frequently encountered issue for users across different SharePoint versions. This article will discuss common challenges in using SharePoint Uploader and potential solutions to ensure seamless bulk upload SharePoint experiences. Using SharePoint Uploader Requires Administrator Support You can use a Windows Explorer view to upload multiple files and copy-paste items. Alternatively, the ‘Upload Multiple Documents’ button on the ribbon can be used. However, administrator permissions are necessary for bulk upload to SharePoint. Library restrictions may limit the number of files uploaded or block certain file types for security reasons. ...

SharePoint project management may be eating away your working time if not utilizing the OOTB SharePoint options, like task management templates, or specially designed third-party tools. The smart approach to this issue can incredibly shorten the whole project planning and production cycle. In this blogpost, we will highlight some basic features of SharePoint task management. SharePoint Personal Site A personal site in SharePoint is the easiest way to keep tracking your tasks and manage them from within one place. You can see an aggregate view of all tasks assigned to you across the entire SharePoint farm, regardless of where a task resides. You can edit a task by clicking on it and being redirected to the site or SharePoint task list, that contains this task. A timeline view allows you to display certain tasks in a Gantt chart style view, the most popular view for SharePoint task management. This is a convenient way to represent task list sequentially as tasks, subtasks, and milestones with dates. Also, you can designate specific colors and text styles to your tasks. You can display your tasks in a timeline view by editing the web part properties and checking the “Show timeline” box in the web part settings. Among the other SharePoint task management options available with personal sites are the following: ...