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Why do users want to sync SharePoint calendar with Outlook? The ability of viewing a SharePoint calendar in Outlook prevents users from excessive navigation between calendars located at different sites. With Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto you can overlay multiple calendars in a single place of your choice, and then add them as a separate tab in Microsoft Teams, which is very handy in case you use this tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqYvYLhHiU Calendar Overlay Pro: Key Features ...

Calendar overlays in SharePoint are a powerful tool that allows you to combine multiple calendars into one unified dashboard, simplifying event and schedule management for teams. By merging personal, team, and corporate calendars, overlays improve scheduling efficiency and ensure everyone stays on the same page. In this article, you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to overlay calendars in both SharePoint Online, with its streamlined interface and Exchange Online integration, and SharePoint On-Premises, which requires an on-premises server setup. We’ll also explore additional customization options. ...

SharePoint 2013 workflows help to organize and automate a wide variety of consistent business processes. A SharePoint workflow is a series of one or more steps and actions that perform a simple or complex automated function inside SharePoint. In the latest release of SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has introduced major changes in the SharePoint workflow capabilities from previous versions of SharePoint workflows 2010. In this article we will take a look at SharePoint 2013 workflows changes from a business user point of view and give you a little preview of how the new features can be used to optimize your business workflows. An important feature is backward compatibility. Every SharePoint 2010 workflow continues to work if you upgrade to SharePoint 2013. However SharePoint 2013 workflow runs under the new Workflow Manager, a new server which introduces new capabilities for hosting, authoring and managing workflows. This means that the workflow is not a native part of SharePoint anymore, the entire architecture changes from the previous version. Now, SharePoint and Workflow Manager environments are executing triggered workflows. As a result, scalability was improved and bugs that previously caused workflows to ‘drop’ were fixed. These improvements ensure that SharePoint 2013 workflow will operate at the enterprise level. Another significant improvement, SharePoint 2013 workflow is fully declarative and thus has no custom code is required. The Visual Designer allows you to create SharePoint 2013 workflows using an intuitive drag and drop system. In Visual Designer the user can select from several actions, conditions and components, change various properties and then configure the SharePoint 2013 workflow as needed. Stages allow to group sections of a workflow to be organized logically. You will appreciate this feature if you are building multistep SharePoint 2013 workflow with various actions and related conditions. Besides, SharePoint 2013 workflow can contain a loop and be repeated a specific number of times, or until a specific condition is satisfied. New feature of SharePoint Designer 2013 is a new variable type Dictionary. It is a container, which is holding a collection of other variables and allowing users to work with complex objects inside SharePoint 2013 workflow. Also, a new action “Call HTTP Web Service” is available in SharePoint Designer. This feature allows you to reach out to enterprise systems to submitting or gathering data accessed through web services. Although the predefined SharePoint 2013 workflows can be customized somewhat to meet different needs, you may choose to design and develop workflows that are unique to the business processes in the organization. VirtoSoftware created a solution for end-users and development/web design professionals alike, that allows you to easily automate and simplify business processes in SharePoint. All web parts and components are fully compatible with SharePoint 2013. ...

VirtoSoftware completed a major update to SharePoint Workflow tool – an impressive set of 230+ actions and conditions for easy SharePoint workflow building. SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit is a no-code set of SharePoint extensions for creating custom workflows using tools such as SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio and Visio. Over 230 activities for creating custom SharePoint workflows provide robust functionality and are easy to use. Workflow Activities Extensions Kit allows you to Manage SharePoint sites and lists, send e-mail and sms, work with Active Directory groups, permissions, libraries, dictionaries, and more. SharePoint Workflow Activities simplify the creation of such business processes, so end-users have more time to focus on what really matters. Although customized working processes are included in SharePoint, the need for new custom SharePoint workflow activity extensions arise when the out-of-box SharePoint workflow activities do not suffice specific business requirement. VirtoSoftware expands the range of SharePoint workflow activities to reduce the development costs and time. SharePoint Workflow Activities Kit provides the impressive collection of 230+ components without requiring additional designing or coding skills. These activities with a simple interface can be easily used by the end-users to build workflows and automate day-to-day business processes in minutes. SharePoint Workflow Activities Extensions Kit was designed as a collection of ready-to-use SharePoint Workflows and conditions that enables the end-user to leverage familiar tools for SharePoint workflow development and transform the existing SharePoint environment into a flexible process management solution. SharePoint Workflow Activities Kit functions in both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013, with the 2010 engine. Besides, new SharePoint Workflow Activities Kit major update offers the set of FREE activities and conditions, which are working with native 2013 workflow engine. SharePoint Workflows add-in from Virto is compatible with both SharePoint 2013 and 2010. The license costs $1499 with a one year subscription. Further information about the product and a free 30-day trial can be found at virtosoftware.com. ...

Organizations that consistently employ project management practices boast an impressive 92% success rate (1) in meeting their project objectives—a statistic that underscores the critical role of project management in today’s corporate world. At the heart of this success is SharePoint, Microsoft’s renowned platform for collaboration and project management. As organizations strive for efficiency and seamless operation, SharePoint’s popularity has soared, making it a go-to solution for businesses aiming to streamline project processes and enhance teamwork. ...

Search is one of the most important topics in SharePoint usage. However, it is often overlooked, especially in small projects or at initial project planning stages. Let us consider a quick search example in the SharePoint Online list and various search problems which the user/administrator may encounter. Let’s create a contact list and name it TeamContacts. Now we fill some data in the list: Let’s type a last name in the search bar and press Enter. And here we got no results, nothing has been found: ...

How to send an e-mail to multiple recipients in a list field (People/ Groups with multiple recipients) from SPD workflow? Answer #1: You will not be able to do this specific task with standard SharePoint Designer workflows. As you know it is possible only to target a specific value based on the value in another column. The easiest work-around would be to create a SharePoint security group which contains users and then target this group in the Send Email action. Just make sure that the group is configured for membership to be visible by all users. I know that it is not perfect solution in managing information twice, but this is all we can do with SharePoint Designer. ...

In the previous post, we looked at the process of adding and debugging of Remote Event Receiver. The receiver was added to the list, which is set in our Web application. In this post, we will take a look at how to add event receivers to the lists that are in the Host Web. As an example, we will create a Provider-hosted application (app). This application will allow us to connect the remote event receiver to any list in the Host Web. ...

In this post we will describe how to create and debug Remote Event Receivers for SharePoint Online (Office 365). As an example, we will create a project, which will have an event receiver that is triggered on item creation in Report list. Create a project in Visual Studio 2013. Select the App for SharePoint template. Remote event receivers are supported only by Provider-hosted applications, that is why we choose this type. To create the application, we also need an account in Office 365 (you can purchase a licensed version from the developer, or use a 30 days trial). ...

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Virto Sharepoint Event Calendar Viewer web part allows you to display events of various types defined according to your business needs. Modern look, high usability and easy-to-adjust solution are just a few highlights of its capabilities. Available Display Modes Autodetection of Event Type This means that if you start entering an event type that was created before, the field will offer the existing option types. This will definitely shorten the process of event creations. ...

This article describes how to adjust cross-browser drag and drop of files from your computer to SharePoint Document Library with the help of Virto Bulk Upload. You will also learn how you can adjust file properties, resize Jpeg images before upload to the server and automatically unpack ZIP archive after uploading to the server. Virto Bulk Upload Preview Virto Bulk File Upload is a Silverlight based solution for easy & simple uploading multiple files and attachments to SharePoint. It allows users to upload multiple files into the document library in a more comfortable way, manage the upload process and view the files they are working with. ...