How search works
The improved GOV.UK site search has been up for a few days now. It makes things better for users by headlining the top 3 search results, then showing the rest...
Neil Williams
Head of GOV.UK.
Neil tweets as @neillyneil
Sprint ending 18 June is all about transition
...this: Currently this is just a view of the data. The work for this week includes beginning to get data into the tool automatically and enabling organisations to edit it....
Embedding contact information into pages
Inserting contacts into pages just got lots easier. Instead of going to the organisation admin and copying the contact reference markdown to your clipboard, you can now just start typing...
Good news and bad news about email alerts
First the bad news. As many of you will have noticed, we experienced a nasty bug today which meant that email alerts were going out with only the format name...
Linking from one Inside Government [Whitehall] document to another
...previewed URLs because we do not rewrite those links automatically. For example: BOO HISS https://whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk/travel-insurance?cachebust=1362409293&preview=139044 HURRAY https://whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk/government/admin/detailed-guides/189802 Note that the correct link contains ‘admin’ and a number, as opposed to...
Using the support form
...not sustainable to deal with these requests directly by phone and email, especially with the hundreds of ALBs soon to join the site. From now on, if you call or...
Editing documents scheduled for publication
...Content which has been scheduled and published will appear all around the site simultaneously at the scheduled time – there won’t be a delay because of the cache. But what...
Adding contact information on an org page
...data lately. Here’s some new information about the stuff we haven’t yet told you about, and a re-cap of what we have. 1. All contact information should now be added...
Tracking a ticket in Pivotal
...team works through them in order. Stories in blue are pending. They show in the ‘Icebox’ list. I’ve grouped them into approximate priority groups (P1 = high, P3 = low),...
Removing content
...us to update you on the process for removing content from the frontend… To have content unpublished or deleted send your request via https://www.gov.uk/support/internal. When you submit a request, please...
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