Customize your candidate space

There are two different versions of Candidate Space in Talent Acquisition. You can use either one to display any external job board.

  • By default, Talent Acquisition is installed with the classic user interface. The default home page file for the classic Candidate Space is welcome.html.
  • The other user interface for Candidate Space provides the ability to access Candidate Space in multiple languages. This includes right-to-left languages such as Arabic. It provides enhanced navigation, mapping capabilities, and the ability to modify the delivered color themes. The home page for this candidate space is candidatespace.html.

You can switch your default user interface to the user interface for the new Candidate Space. You can customize either Candidate Space in one of two ways:

  • Modify the source files. You may be required to redeploy your application.
  • Attach customized configurable UI files to your job boards to override the default Candidate Space settings without changing your source files.

Configurable UI files

The Talent Acquisition deliverables contain two zip files that replicate the src directory contents and folder structure that is used by each version of the Candidate Space.

Both files, Welcome.zip and CandidateSpace.zip, and the associated directory structures can be downloaded from the Infor Customer Portal. For more information, see KB1967973 on the Infor Customer Portal.

  • Welcome.zip replicates the src content that is used by the classic Candidate Space.
  • CandidateSpace.zip replicates the src content that is used by the new Candidate Space. The exception is that candidatespace.html is renamed welcome.html in the html folder.

You can use these files as templates. You can copy these files to your machine, rename them, modify them, then attach them to individual job boards.

If you do not attach a configurable home page to a job board, the default home page is used. The configurable home pages are welcome.html as delivered, or candidatespace.html if you change the default.

Using configurable UI files provides these advantages:

  • You can customize the individual appearance of each job board. For example, you can use the classic user interface for some, and the new user interface for others.
  • When you attach a configurable UI file to a job board, the change is immediate.
  • Changes require no reorganization or rebuilding of the database. The source files are untouched.
  • You can test the look and feel of a job board without any risk.

What you can customize

You can perform the same customizations in the source database or in configurable UI files.

For the new Candidate space, you can perform these customizations:

  • customize the header and background images
  • integrate links to your corporate site in the header
  • change the fonts
  • change the theme colors
  • change the mapping option
  • translate the user interface text in multiple languages
  • enable and customize the mobile version when the new Candidate Space is implemented.

    To customize the user interface text in your base language, for example English, follow the same directives as for translation. You can modify the base language file or create a variant.

For the classic Candidate space, you can perform these customizations:

  • replace the company logo and other images
  • change the descriptive text in the welcome.html file.
  • You can completely redesign the welcome page, provided you keep the links to the Candidate Space application.

Switching your installation to the new user interface for Candidate Space

You have two options to switch to the new user interface for Candidate Space:

  • You can modify the CandidateSelfService.webapp file in your Talent Acquisition source. Select Modules > Webapps > CandidateSelfService to point to candidatespace.html.

    This option requires that you reorganize and rebuild your database.

  • You can attach a customized version of the delivered CandidateSpace.zip file to each external job board that your organization uses.

    This option takes effect immediately, does not change your default installation, and can be reversed at any time.

    This is a great way to test which interface you prefer without changing your source database.