Data source settings on Virtosoftware Guides & Docs

Microsoft Exchange calendar

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:55 +0000

Virto SharePoint Calendar enables the use of Microsoft Exchange calendar as a data source and allows you to overlay the Virto Calendar with user or group Exchange calendars, as well as Exchange shared calendars. You can overlay the Virto Calendar with Exchange 2013, 2016, and Online.

Go to the Virto Calendar settings and expand the “Data Source settings” block. Then use the “Create new source” button to add a new data source to your calendar.

SharePoint List web service

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:47 +0000

Read Only

Virto Calendar allows users to select “SharePoint List Web Service” as a data source. The data source is read-only and is used to view events from other SharePoint farms.

Go to the data source settings and create a new data source. You need to define the data as follows:

Site URL
Authentication type
Login data (if the “Authenticate as currently logged on user” checkbox is not selected)

External content type

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:44 +0000

only Pro and Pro Exchange Edition, SharePoint 2013

Virto Calendar allows users to add an external content type as a data source. An external content type is a reusable collection of metadata that contains connectivity information, data definitions, and the behaviors you want to apply to a certain category of external data.

When an external content type is added to SharePoint Designer, it is required to define access rights for SharePoint users. If access rights are not defined, this type of data source will not work for the Virto Calendar.

Google Calendar

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:37 +0000

Google Calendar data source (only Pro and Pro Exchange Edition)#

Virto Calendar allows users to add a Google Calendar data source and adjust the view of Google Calendar events in the Virto Calendar.

Click “Edit Web Part” and scroll down to the data source settings block. Click “Create New Source” and select “Google Calendar” as the data source.

Then, enter the username (Google account name) of the user whose calendar will be added as a data source. Click “Get Google Tokens” (you must be signed in to your account) and copy the token from the pop-up window.

XML file

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:33 +0000

only PRO and Exchange editions

You can use any XML file as a data source in your SharePoint calendar. Create a new data source in the calendar settings, select the “XML File” data source type, and check the box “Show in Calendar.”

The XML information displayed in the Virto Calendar is read-only.

All the XML information is defined with XPath strings. The following strings are required to enter: the path to the XML file, the XPath string for calendar events, and the XPath string for the calendar event start date. Other fields are not required: the XPath string for the calendar event title, the XPath string for the calendar event end date, the XPath string for the calendar event IsAllDay flag, and the XPath string for the calendar event tooltip. Please see XPath examples to define event information.

SQL List

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:29 +0000

You can use not only SharePoint lists as data sources but also data from SQL databases. To add an SQL list as a data source, browse to the “Data Source Settings” block and use “Create New Source.”

Type the SQL server name, enter a username and password, and then click “Browse” to choose the required database from the list.

The list of available databases will be displayed. Select the required one.

SharePoint List

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:49:24 +0000

Select the SharePoint list type.

You can add any SharePoint lists and external calendar lists (such as Exchange Calendar, Google Calendar, Salesforce Calendar, SQL Tables, XML files, etc.). In this example, we will use a SharePoint calendar list. Select the required site from the site collection dropdown, then choose the list.

You can add lists from any number of sites within the SharePoint site collection.

Select the title column and the start and end time columns of the list.