Microsoft Sharepoint

Oct/05

Microsoft Sharepoint

Virto SharePoint Alert Customizer 2.1: New Features for Designing Microsoft SharePoint Alerts

Virtosoftware presents a new version of one of its major web parts for Microsoft SharePoint – Virto Alert & Reminder Web Part 2.1. Virto Alert Customizer expands functionality and flexibility of the default SharePoint notification system by offering a wide range of additional alert-related options and features. The web part allows for creating custom alerts within a minute, sending them to a specific user or a group of users by e-mail, SMS and instant messengers, making custom Rich Text Template for different types of alerts and using link templates when designing alert views, setting up sophisticated alert triggers and scheduling delivering schemes.

A range of new features for setting, customizing and managing SharePoint alerts and reminders has been added to Virto Alert Customizer 2.1. First, Virto Alert Customizer 2.1 allows for sending alerts by SMS via Office Mobile Service (OMS) protocol in addition to Clickatell and Smscountry that were available in the previous versions. Second, it enables more flexible scheme of alert delivering: now you can set not just date of sending alert, but also specify the exact time. Finally, now alerts can be designed and customized by any SharePoint user, not only by administrator. The rights for customizing alerts are granted to SharePoint users or user groups by administrator. With this last feature SharePoint users can easily design alerts they need by themselves.

Virto Alert Customizer 2.1 is already available at www.virtosoftware.com. Visit the website for more information about Alert Customizer and other Microsoft SharePoint web parts by Virtosoftware, trials and demo versions as well as installation and user guides.

About the Author

VirtoSoftware designs and builds innovative web parts for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 and 2010. It's compiled using the best Ajax and Silverlight technologies. The very first Virto Web Part was released in April, 2009, and the current comprehensive lineup includes calendaring, alerting, collaboration, workflow and administration capabilities for SharePoint users.

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