Help Center

October 2023

Changes made October 27, 2023

Sitewide enhancements

Added the following:

  • A trim function to the name fields of the Open Opportunities welcome page.
  • A Contact us page so users can submit information to the help desk.
  • A snack bar that displays when a user successfully submits the Contact us form.
  • A Contact us link in the footer.

  • Updated the following tables to pull updated data from USAJOBS:

    • Pay plan table
    • Country table
    • Country subdivision table

Opportunities

  • Continued work on the right rail re-design of opportunities. This redesign has not been released yet.
  • Updated the profile pages of federal users to include an ad for the Federal Mentoring community.

Internships

  • Update the right rail of the What happens next? page to include an ad for the Virtual Student Federal Service community, when a user submits an application for an internship.
  • Updated the Applicants table to display the student application status as Not selected when the internship has a status of In-progress.

Communities

  • Made the following updates to the students_selected.csv file, used by community administrators of student cyclical communities:
    • Removed the student_name column.
    • Added a student_first_name column.
    • Added a student_middle_name column.
    • Added a student_last_name column.
    • Added a student_profile_id column.
  • Made the following updates to the rejected_applicants.csv file that is used by community administrators of student cyclical communities:
    • Removed the student_name column.
    • Added a student_first_name column.
    • Added a student_middle_name column.
    • Added a student_last_name column.
    • Added a student_profile_id column.
  • Updated the community_internships.csv to add the applicant profile id to the selected_applicants column. This file is used by community administrators of student cyclical communities.
  • Updated the Education.csv to add an applicant’s internship task id to the No_internships_selected_for column. This file is used by community administrators of student cyclical communities.

Changes made October 13, 2023

Opportunities

  • Continued work on redesigning the right rail section of the opportunity detail page. This redesign has not been released yet.

Internships

  • Updated the cycle dropdown to display the original internship cycle when a sitewide or community administrator edits a cyclical internship.
  • Created an automatic process that will withdraw all student applicants from an internship when the internship is canceled.