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 features in the News Articles Dashboard
Users can now filter articles by source country, tags, and publication date. Tags and source country are both assigned to a news source, rather than individual articles, by adding or editing a source in the FDW under Metadata management > News articles > Sources. See the help text for additional details on using the filters and adding countries and tags to sources.
This feature includes the following Jira issues:
New email alert feature in FDW
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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]
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Updates
Comprehensive Metadata Updates
Draft metadata documentation is now available for price cross tab and price indices data extracts.
This update includes the following Jira issues:
Updates
Upload Revised Zimbabwe FSC Shapefiles (DATA-1566)
Revised Zimbabwe 2013 and 2021 shape files have been uploaded to FDW as follows:
Country and regional shape files on the website (e.g., https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcpackage/?country_code=ZW&collection_date=2022-04-01, https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcpackage/?country_group=903&collection_date=2022-04-01)
The shape files attached to the 2013 and 2021 ZW FSC geographic unit set versions in the FDW (e.g., https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/spatial/geographicunitsetversion/193/change/?_changelist_filters=geographicunitset__country__iso3166a2__exact%3DZW, https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/spatial/geographicunitsetversion/3410/change/?_changelist_filters=geographicunitset__country__iso3166a2__exact%3DZW)
Improved search functionality in Data Platform (DATA-1568)
Users now have greater control over their searches. New functionality includes:
Search for an exact phrase by using single or double quotation marks (e.g., if you search for vegetable oil, you will get all results that have either of those words but searching "vegetable oil" or ‘vegetable oil’ will yield only results that include that exact phrase).
Exclude terms by using a minus (-) symbol (e.g. searching 'vegetable oil' -'palm oil' will return all results about vegetable oil unless they include a reference to palm oil).
Expand your search by using or (e.g. searching “sunflower oil” “palm oil” will surface results containing both phrases, but searching "sunflower oil” or “palm oil" provides you with results that contain either phrase).
Change the status of aggregated records(datapoints) from calculated to aggregated. (DATA-1575)
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FDE and FDW helptext is now available without a login required. This allows users accessing publicly available dashboards (e.g., News Aggregator and Import Dependence) to also access relevant helptext.
Color the countries on the import dependency dashboard (DATA-1589)
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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Update South Sudan Data in FDW (DATA-1610)
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FDW users with the appropriate permissions are now able to bulk upload price ratios. This functionality can be accessed using the path below:
Data Analysis > Calculated Data Sets > Relative Prices > Import relative prices ; (i.e. (, https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/price/priceratio/import/)
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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)
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The link to the data disclaimer in the footer of the FDE was broken. This link has been fixed.
Updating the Description text field of the Data usage policy results in 500 Internal Error (DATA-1593)
Trying to edit the
DescriptionField of aData usage policywas resulting in a 500 Internal Error. This issue has been fixed.