Help Center

January, 2023

Changes made January 20, 2023

Sitewide

  • Updated the date and time format in the Administration section including:

    • Manage Opportunities page
    • Manage Internships page

Opportunities

  • Updated the date and time format in the federal and contract user dashboards, including:

    • Recommended Opportunities tab
    • Step 4 Opportunity creation review page

Internships

  • Updated the date and time format in the student user dashboard, including:

    • Recommended internships tab
    • Saved searches section.
    • Step 4 Internship creation review page.

Communities

  • Created a customized certificate of completion for internships in the VSFS student community.
  • Added a link to the community profile page in the Community updated success banner.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Add, Edit and Cycles page, so when users click Enter in a text field, they do not navigate away from the page.
  • Fixed an issue with the opportunity cards on the Opportunity search page, so the community’s name does not overlap the agency name.

Changes made January 6, 2023

Sitewide

  • Synced the Open Opportunities occupational series data table with the USAJOBS data table.

  • Updated the date and time format across the site:

    • Home page
    • Profile page
    • Networking page
    • Opportunity and internship cards
    • Opportunity and internship detail page
    • Messages page
    • Community profile and discussion pages
    • Sitewide, agency and community administration pages
    • Manage users page
    • Manage opportunities and internships page
    • Featured event card

  • Increased the standard line height for text to 1.54 across the site including:

    • Main CSS
    • Profile page
    • Demographics section
    • About me page
    • Edit profile page
    • Skills page (student users)
    • Skills and mentorships page (federal and contract users)
    • Sitewide, agency and community administration dashboard pages
    • Homepage including the What’s new tab and Post your next project banner (for federal and contract users)
    • Internship search page including the banner section and internship card
    • Opportunity search page, including the banner section and opportunity card
    • Community card, including Who we are
    • Community profile page and these sections:
      • Who we are
      • What we do
      • Who can join
      • Key resources
    • Community discussion page, including the intro text and ground rules in the left rail and the community discussion card title
    • Community internship search page, including the banner
    • Community story page, including the main story text
  • Removed oxford commas from the placeholder text in the Manage Users search bar.

Opportunities

  • Updated the tracker UI that displays during the opportunity creation process. The tracker helps to navigate through the steps of the creation process.

  • Updated the apply pages for Detail and Lateral opportunities:

    • Removed the resume upload process content from the right rail.
    • Added resume cards.
    • Added a modal that displays when a user uploads a resume.
  • Removed oxford commas from the tracker UI on the opportunity creation pages.

Internships

  • Updated the notification emails that we send when an internship has been inactive for 90 or 120 days.
  • Removed oxford commas from the tracker UI on the internship creation pages and the right rail of the Add language page.

Communities

  • Added a My communities tab to the community page.
  • Updated the community filters to display on the community page when a user is signed out.
  • Moved the Federal communities filter to display before the Student communities filter on the communities page.
  • Updated the community cards to display Joined if a user is a community member.
  • Created a Community communication drawer.
  • Added a toggle to display a community logo in emails sent by a community.
  • Enabled community administrators to view a user’s email address if they are a member of the community.
  • Removed all oxford commas from the the community page and community profile page.

Bug fixes

Fixed the following issues:

  • Fixed skills engine so it will update when a user creates an opportunity.
  • Removed hyphenation on the Open Opportunities landing page when viewed using Safari.
  • Removed overlapping of the event time and date on the event card.
  • Fixed community administrators so they can view an applicant’s profile using the applicant tables.
  • Prevented in-progress internships from displaying on the recommended internships page.