The left menu in the sharing portal has been reordered to bring the most frequently accessed items closer to the top. This small change  (you probably didn't even notice!)  will make it faster for portal users to find the menu items they are most likely to want to access.  The new order (depending on which functions you have enabled for Partner staff and Volunteer Leader) is:

• Home   (the portal landing page)
• Volunteer Opportunities
• Report Attendance
• Contacts
• My Organization
• Reports
• Return to Volunteer Portal

When clicking on the "Volunteer Opportunities" menu item, you are taken to a list of all volunteer opportunities.  They were appearing in alphabetical order, and often the opportunities you were seeing included inactive, archived opportunities, etc.  which required you to do an additional step to see the opportunities you were most interested in looking at.

To speed up relevant results, the default setting for the page when you arrive will be that the filter "Posting Status" will be set to "This is approved and published for volunteers to sign-up".  That way - actively published opportunities will be the default view for this page.

Users can then use the search box or reset the filters to find other opportunities as needed.

The "Location" that is specified when first creating a Volunteer Opportunity may not be the only location that the volunteer opportunity takes place at. New occurrences can be created to take place at other locations.  To avoid confusion, the "Location" listed in the volunteer opportunity detail page has been relabeled "Default Location" to clarify that this is the location that will be selected by default when you create new occurrences.   But you always have the option of picking a different location each time you create a new occurrence.

The "Requirements" section of the volunteer opportunity detail page was not displaying all the possible restrictions that an admin can add to an opportunity. The following restrictions (if used) will now appear in the requirements section of the page:

• Orientation required
• Background Check required  (if not using Verified volunteers which shows this via a badge)
• Minor Waiver on File required
• Court Ordered Volunteer - Allowed"

Want to add a button in your CMS content but don't have a custom button image available or know the .css to produce a button via the source code?  Tired of losing buttons that don't show up in a WYSIWYG block but are hidden in the source code?   Well, guess what!  We've made it easy now to add a button on a page -- Just add a Button Block!   See this article on how to add a button block.  

Have fun with our easy button-creation tool!  

For those of you using the featured opportunity block, we added a new feature -- the ability to add a button as part of your featured opportunity block!    See this article for details on adding a button the featured opportunity block.

We are now piloting the ability for volunteers to print out a HandsOn Connect Access Pass with a QR code that will allow them to check-in via the HOC Check-In Kiosk by having their pass scanned by the kiosk.

If you're a current user of the Check-In Kiosk add-on, and you're interested in participating in the pilot, please open a ticket in the support site requesting that we enable QR check-in for your kiosk.

For more information on how the Access Pass functionality works, see this article in the help center.