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How to Showcase New Hires with the New Employees Web Part

Learn how to spotlight recently hired employees on a SharePoint site with the New Employees web part from Employee Directory: add it to a page, set the look-back period (last 1–6 months) and the number of employees, filter users with the filter editor, and configure card size, card fields and actions.

12/2/2024 Līga Ozola 5.9k

Vitextra Licensing and Account: How to Buy and Activate a License

Guide to Vitextra licensing: the free 14-day trial, choosing a product and subscription period, purchasing a license, assigning it to your Microsoft 365 tenant and verifying the license status. One license covers both SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams.

11/25/2024 Lidija Reising 3.1k

How to Install a Vitextra Product in SharePoint Online

Step-by-step guide to installing a Vitextra SPFx product in SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365: environment and permission requirements, downloading the .sppkg package, uploading it to the App Catalog and approving API access requests.

11/24/2024 Jānis Bērziņš 6.3k

How to Add and Configure the Smart Tiles Web Part

Step-by-step guide to adding the Vitextra Smart Tiles web part to a SharePoint Online page: deploying the package, finding the web part in the toolbox, the sample tiles, the web part title, every setting of the Appearance group, the About group and placing the panel in a full-width section.

11/23/2024 Jānis Bērziņš 11k

How to Create a Custom Search Results Page with Smart Search

Step-by-step guide to building a custom search results page in SharePoint Online from scratch and configuring the Vitextra Smart Search web part: data source and tabs, appearance, filtering, sorting, item layout, item actions and search settings.

11/13/2024 Jānis Bērziņš 8k

Configuring the List Filter Online Web Part

How to configure the Vitextra List Filter Online web part for SharePoint Online: data source and columns, column formats, folders, item limit and pagination, sorting, grouping and totals, the Query Builder, the filter pane with cascading and remembered filters, the command toolbar, appearance, developer tools and licensing.

5/12/2024 Lidija Reising 3.6k

How to Set Up Permissions for Quick Poll Responses

Learn how to let users with read-only access to the host site take part in Quick Poll polls and surveys: the securable objects, the permissions each role needs, granting Contribute on the Responses list and the Teams tab case.

2/11/2022 Līga Ozola 11k

Tile Colors in Smart Tiles: Theme Accent and Predefined Colors

The background and font colors available for tiles in the Vitextra Smart Tiles web part: the six accent colors that follow the site theme, the palette of 31 predefined Fluent UI colors, black and white - with the exact values, how accent colors behave on sites whose theme does not define them, and advice on combining colors.

10/31/2021 Līga Ozola 7k

Vitextra List Filter: Filtering Controls and Supported Column Types

Reference for all 14 filtering controls of the Vitextra Filter web part for SharePoint, including Text, Autocomplete, Date, People Picker, Taxonomy Term, Slider and Number Range, with the SharePoint column types each control supports and a compatibility matrix.

8/30/2021 Līga Ozola 12k

How to Deploy and Set Up Short URL Online

Learn how to deploy Vitextra Short URL Online in a Microsoft 365 tenant: the two .sppkg packages, deploying them to the SharePoint App Catalog and enabling the command bar extension on each site to shorten links to documents and folders.

8/28/2021 Jānis Bērziņš 12k