What's new - Aug 2 2023 - Saved searches, Calendar integration, work logs, and more.

Shared by Emily • August 03, 2023

New features, improvements and bug fixes released on Riipen from July 19 - Aug 2.

Today's update spans the last two weeks and includes some major new features requested by our users: the ability to save searches, link to an external calendar, and track hours spent on projects.

Feature

Saved searches - a user can save any search criteria in the project or experience marketplace to quickly apply it again in future and be notified of new content matching your search. Learn more

Calendar integration - all users now have a calendar showing the times of key events related to their account. Sync your Riipen calendar to an external calendar with your unique calendar link.
Work logs - learners can now log their time spent on projects, via the team page. These logs can be reviewed by the employer they work with, and their educator. Learn more

Improvements

As an employer, when you duplicate a project, you can now duplicate both its content and its meta-information, if you are an administrator of the project. Previously only content could be duplicated.

As an educator or employer, if you have recommendations enabled you'll receive recommendations based on your saved searches and recent searches.

The chatbot message "Still interested in this possible match?" which sends in match request conversations has been updated to prompt more specific action, suggesting the users book a meeting.

As an educator, I can indicate in the experience wizard "Projects wanted" section what percentage of projects I intend to source from open marketplace versus my portal's private marketplace.
Substantial load time improvements for all portal reports
As a user, I should receive a chatbot reminder in a match request conversation 5 days before match request expiry
The project review email received by employers after project publication now has a section explaining the content is generated with AI, with a link to a help article.

Bug fixes

In the message preview component on match, match request and team page, the last message sent should be shown instead of first message sent.
Validation error when submitting match request with milestones