2023.Q3

This quarter, we met our objectives of launching a marketplace that can support users find and procure digital solutions, all with a brand new, intuitive user interface. Sign up for our newsletter to learn more about how you can get involved in this growing and engaged community!

Featured Updates

  • COMPARISON TOOL - A brand new feature to compare products is now available. You can use the Exchange to learn more about the differences between products in our catalog.

  • NEW USER INTERFACE & USER EXPERIENCE - We listened to feedback from our users and simplified the interface for easier and more intuitive browsing!

  • NEW PLAYBOOK: Vendors can now use the playbook as part of their onboarding process into the vendor directory.

New UI/UX and Comparison Tool

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Use Case

  • Use case list views updated according to new design

    • Redesigned use case card, filter section

    • Added “what is a use case” tab

    • Added “create use case” form

    • Added paging for use cases

  • Use case detail view pages updated according to new design

    • Created use case step left side nav

    • Added small building blocks card for UC pages

    • Added small workflows card for UC pages

    • Added small products card for UC pages

    • Added main use case step content

  • Use case detail pages updated according to new design

    • Implemented left side bar

    • Changed commenting section

    • Updated use case step card

    • Updated detail main content

 

 

 

 

 

 

Products

  • Product filtering updated according to new design

  • Product detail page updated according to new design

    • Implemented left sidebar including “jump to”

    • Refactored maturity code repositories section of page

    • Implemented product detail main content

  • Product list pages updated according to new design

    • Redesigned product card

    • Refactored filter section

    • Implemented “What is a product card”

    • Implemented Create Product functionality

    • Updated product list to use paging

 

Mobile Views

  • Added button to toggle filtering section

  • Now rendering bookmarks, share, commenting at the bottom of mobile views and other smaller screens

User pages

  • Update user pages updated according to new design

    • Changed login screen to popup dialog

    • Added bookmarking data model

    • Implemented bookmarks on building blocks, use case, product pages,

    • Implemented new user detail page,

    • Implemented new user bookmark page

    • Implemented bookmarks on BB, Use case, and product list pages

Building Blocks

  • List and detail pages updated according to new design

    • Redesigned building block card

    • Refactored filter section

    • Implemented “What is a Building Block” tab

    • Implemented “create BB” functionality

    • Updated BB list to use paging

    • Detail page: implemented left sidebar

    • Detail page: Updated main content

 

Home Page and About Page

  • Home Page:

    • Updated home page with new language and messaging

    • Fixed overlap on Recommendations Wizard and Let’s Get Started Sections

  • About Page

    • Updated About Page with new messaging

    • Added About to the top nav to replace carousel from old UI

    • Marketplace hero on main carousel scroll added

 

 

Community

  • New UX for commenting functionality updated according to new design

Organizations

  • List view and detail pages updated according to new design

 

Other pages

  • Refactored Open Data, Workflows, Projects and SDGs list and detail views according to new design

Resources Page

  • Refactored Resources Page according to new design

  • Updated Covid-19 Page according to new design

Recommendations Wizard

Refactored Wizard according to new design

  • Refactored Progress Bar

  • Updated questions page

  • Updated results page

Comparison Tool (New Feature)

  • Created compare checkbox to product card

  • Developed compare footer component

  • Product comparison screen added

  • Created filtering and “highlight differences” feature

Tasks

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GovStack Integration

  • Manual updates done to Building Blocks in Exchange using same language as GovStack library

  • GovStack use cases not syncing - now fixed

  • Added GovStack Hero image

Vendor Storefronts and Organizations

  • Added projects functionality for vendors to add their projects and pin projects of their choice at the top.

  • Now allowing bookmarking

  • Added organizations' contact information in data export

    Organizations <--> Storefronts improved logic

  • Added candidate organization process to allow users to create storefronts.

Opportunities

  • Renamed Opportunities to RFP

  • Allow bookmarking

Playbook

  • Added playbook for vendor storefront onboarding process

Maintenance

  • Updated docker file and tooling

  • Refactored components and UI/V1

Bugs (Now Fixed)

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User permissions

  • Clicking “Contact Owner” was not working

  • On the backend, could not add a contact with the same name that has previously been added

  • Admin view for approvals now include what page users have applied ownership to

User reported issues

  • User was facing difficulties signing up

  • Option to create storefront was not available for user

 

Rubric

  • “Create new” was spitting error

  • Deleting rubric category was throwing js error

Playbooks

  • Play preview was not updating building block or product data after editing

  • Upload photo in playbooks was not working

  • Cleaned up resource URLs so that protocol links to correct link

Opportunities cards

  • Fixed alignment issues

404

  • 4‌04 error when trying to access the SDG detail from use case page now fixed

Miscellaneous

  • Maturity details were not rendering correctly

  • DPI visualization of Building Blocks were not rendering

  • Fixed Twitter link and logo (to X )

  • DPGA sync was throwing error

  • GitHub links on product candidates were not opening

  • Manual addition of RFP had issues

  • Use case detail pages were rendering with incorrect widths