The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.06 release to FDW/FDE.

New Features

New email alert feature in FDW

• FDW users with appropriate permissions can now set up automatic email alerts based on pre-defined criteria. When a new news article is downloaded matching those criteria, an email is sent to the email address(es) specified in the alert. [MAY NEED MORE DETAILS AND SCREENSHOT]

• This feature includes the following Jira issues:

  • Add News URLs to the main FDW URL patterns (DATA-1581)

  • Create alerts or news digests for articles that match certain criteria (DATA-1592)

  • Enable view set country and tag filters, and unit tests. (DATA-1603)

Updates

Improved search functionality in Data Platform (DATA-1568)

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• Countries on the scatter plot are divided by color into three categories: FEWS NET Presence, FEWS NET Remote, and Other countries.

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Bug Fixes

Filtering either by Geographic or Market Filters of the exchange rate data of the country Haiti results in all of the exchange rate data of all the countries (DATA-1390)

• Filtering either by Geographic or Market Filters of the exchange rate data for Haiti (e.g., https://fdw.fews.net/api/exchangeratevaluefacts/?format=html&subtype=ExchangeRateValue&country_code=HT&fields=simple) returned exchange rate data for all FDW countries. This issue has been fixed and now returns correct exchange rate data for Haiti.

Spatial Export Bug Fix (DATA-1562)

• In the spatial domain, population and demography estimates were not being shown in the data extract when shapefile attributes were included. This issue has been fixed.

Link to data disclaimer broken (DATA-1585)

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Bug Fixes

Updating the Description text field of the Data usage policy results in 500 Internal Error (DATA-1593)

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