The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.10 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.
New Features
Updates available in the refreshed FDE
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A new support widget (DATA-1926)
The ability for users to hide data series with zero data points (DATA-1869)
A filter design that is useable on a variety of device types (DATA-2116)
The ability for users to view metadata for selected data series within FDE (DATA-1942, DATA-1969, DATA-1972, DATA-2091)
All domains now include an info popup for each data series that includes additional information including the data usage policy (DATA-2097, DATA-1934)
Read more about these features.
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Introduce IPC HFA data domain
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Description
FEWSNET captures Humanitarian Food Assistance(HFA data) for some countries. To capture this in FDW, we will add a new Indicator to capture HFA data with the options:
CS - Current Situation(0)
ML1 - Most Likely Scenario (1)
ML2 - Most Likely Scenario(2)
We will also add a new Model class in the IPC domain to store HFA data.
We will add a new resource class to handle HFA data uploads.
Since at the moment most countries capturing HFA data also capture IDP data, we will build the resource class in a way that it accepts a template with both values and extracts HFA data only and ignores the others such that we can use the same file to upload both IDP and HFA data.
DATA-1934 Add Data usage policy in api return for IPC FIPE and FIC domains
Updates
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(DATA-557)
The FDW is now able to capture Humanitarian Food Assistance Data. This data can be accessed by going to Dataseries Management > Acute Food Insecurity > Humanitarian Food Assistance.
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Updates
Refreshed FDW Interface (DATA-2040,
The FDW user interface has been refreshed to reflect the new FEWS NET brand. Changes include:
Add filtering by keyword for News
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Article API (DATA-1651)
The news API should also accept keywords to filter the responses byNews Article API now accepts keywords as a filter parameter.
Updates to KoBo Toolbox
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DATA-1793 Kobo toolbox dashboard
Description
Hello Henock and Girum,
Thanks so much for attending the East Africa XBT training and Kobo toolbox rollout. I wanted to recap and list the challenges and the issues we encountered with the backed of kobo toolbox data viewing dashboard. I would like to address those as much as possible as it impacts our users' LOE when they review and download data and how we want to move forward with similar activities if we want to use Kobo.
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DATA-1811 East Africa XBT Kobo Form Modifications
Description
As outlined in
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DATA-1827 Upgrade FEWS KoBo to latest version
Description
To be able to use the newer row-based permission feature in KoBo, we need to upgrade the KoBo version currently installed for FEWS to the latest available version.DATA-1913 Speed up api format renders of endpoints with large drop-downs
Description
Some endpoints, particularly ipcphase, take a long time to render in api format (browsable), because they contain foreign keys to large tables, which are rendered as HTML SELECT OPTION tags.
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In most cases these would be more usable simply as TEXT inputs to type an ID in to.
Refreshed domain names (DATA-1922
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Description
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, DATA-1939)
The names of the domains shown in the sidebar of FDE2 Data Platform have been reviewed . These changes need to be propagated throughout the FDW and should be incorporated into the following places;
FDW Menu Names
HDX names
Verbose names on Django models
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and several have been updated across the refreshed FDE, FDW, and HDX. Name changes can be reviewed here.
DATA-1943 Update FAO pipeline based on changes in remote api
Description
The help ticket reported
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DATA-1994 Add dataset name to cross-domain dataset endpoint
Description
Make the dataset name field available on the cross-domain api/dataset endpoint
DATA-2040 Refinements to FDW data entry screen UI
Description
I have some revisions to the FDW data entry screens to improve usability. See example in the linked Figma design—”3.3 Recommended Design - Classified Product Change Screen”
Revisions:
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Increase spacing between the entry form title and the record title
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Add dividing lines above the record title and below the last input field
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Change input field labels from left justified to right justified (except “country classified product aliases”)
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Change input field labels from all caps to standard body case, making sure the first word of each field label is capitalized
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Bug Fixes
DATA-1656 Trying to open https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/semistructured/semistructureddatapoint/ results in 500 Internal Server Error
DATA-1929 Unable to update datasourcedocument name
Description
As reported
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DATA-1935 Investigate issues with refresh materialized views debouncing incorrectly.
Description
The EWT have been having issues with uploaded data collections taking a long time to reflect the updates in FDW. The is because the refresh materialized views have not been running correctly. These can be run manually by ssh-ing into the server and running the commands from psql, like the below;
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DATA-1954 Fix safety warning for protobuf
Description
The below safety error is causing issues in the CI pipelines.
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DATA-2083 SaveNewArticles fails for articles from multiple sources
Description
SaveNewArticle relies on ReadExistingArticles to avoid inserting duplicates.
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