2023.Q2

Owned by Sarah Farooqi
Last updated: Jul 04, 2023
3 min read

This quarter we made a lot of progress on building the marketplace (*coming soon). Stay tuned for the upcoming launch of the new website and marketplace by signing up to the Digital Impact Exchange newsletter.

Featured Updates

  • OPPORTUNITIES RADAR - A brand new feature to list opportunities is now available. The Exchange can aggregate information from other sources using an API or bid opportunities can be added manually by users. The Exchange is now featuring RFPs from leverist.de

  • VENDOR STOREFRONTS - Another brand new feature is a “vendor storefront” where vendors, system integrators and other companies in the digital development ecosystem can showcase their services, past projects, and specialities.

  • GOVSTACK ALIGNMENTS - GovStack use cases can are now available in the Exchange through an automated sync and badged to indicate source.

 

Tasks

Category

Description

Tracking

Category

Description

Tracking

Wizard

  • All use cases displayed in dropdown

  • Drop downs now aligned in RW

  • Product search expanded to include sectors

CDS-1515
CDS-1517
CDS-1516

Playbooks

  • More user friendly UI created

CDS-1548

Opportunities radar

  • Created data model

  • Created filters

  • Added “create” functionality

  • User interface created for opportunities radar

  • Sort and filter by status and date capability added

  • Created sector mapping from Leverist.de to Exchange categories

  • Created new section for “Opportunities radar”

  • RFPs are now read from Leverist.de

  • Text for “What is an opportunity” updated

CDS-1492
CDS-1487
CDS-1488
CDS-1490
CDS-1498
CDS-1565
CDS-1486
CDS-1489
CDS-1627

Vendor Storefront UI

  • Vendor storefront UI created

  • List of specialties defined

  • Created new section for Vendor Storefronts

  • Vendor storefront data model designed

  • Portability for organizations tab now created

  • “Create new” functionality added

  • Vendor storefront user permissions updated

  • Filters for vendor storefronts created

CDS-1585

CDS-1589

CDS-1581

CDS-1586

CDS-1588

CDS-1583

CDS-1587

CDS-1582

Landing Page

  • Removed tab navigation, replace with dropdown (*still on dev site)

CDS-1600

Rebrand

  • Updated confluence with new name

  • Changed name from Catalog to Exchange on Newsletter signup

  • Update ddocumentation with Exchange references

  • Added link for newsletter in About/Help

  • Created resource page Articles/Blogs

CDS-1501
CDS-1535
CDS-1500
CDS-1534
CDS-1505

GovStack

  • Use case and BB enhancements for GovStack done

  • Now syncing use cases from GovStack Gitbooks/GitHub

  • Disabled edit on use cases/steps coming from GovStack

  • Added section in use cases for “stakeholders”

  • Made enhancements to GovStack’s “Give Feedback” Form

  • Added badge for use cases being sourced from GovStack’s GitBook

CDS-100

CDS-1520

CDS-1568

CDS-1557

CDS-1575

CDS-1569

User permissions

  • Exposed “Add New” button for Building Blocks for admins only

  • Created link for users to sign up as content editors

  • For admins, created notification when user makes request

  • Now sending an email when an application is rejected or approved for candidate roles

  • Removed duplicates of values when users are approved as product owners

CDS-1561

CDS-466

CDS-1567

CDS-1392

CDS-1393

Rubric

  • Added descriptions to rubric categories in the popup

CDS-1551

Maintenance

  • Updated dependencies for both React/Next/js and Rails gems

CDS-1552

Other

  • Removed references to SDG Framework

  • Disabled Matomo metrics

CDS-1450

CDS-1570

Bugs

Category

Description

Tracking

Category

Description

Tracking

Playbooks

  • Ordering moves within a play was not working due to all entries having a move order of 0

  • Playbooks could only be saved after an autosave to not lose information

  • Improved performance in loading plays or moves

CDS-1546

CDS-1476

CDS-1547

Admin controls

  • Admin menus was showing for non-admin accounts

  • Approvals for candidates were not working

CDS-1555

CDS-1626

Use cases

  • Edit section for “Tags” missing

  • Edit section for SDG Targets missing

  • Markdown URL is not needed for each step (GovStack)

  • SDG dropdown was not numbered correctly

CDS-1563

CDS-1558

CDS-1559

CDS-1436

User reported issues

  • Password reset issue resolved

  • Approved reach52 as a product

  • Login issue resolved

CDS-1556

CDS-1539

CDS-1540

Other

  • Clean up errors in production log

  • Tutorial cookies issue resolved

CDS-1554

CDS-1544