The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 23.03 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.
New Features
FDE
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Users can self sign-up for an FDE account through a simple form.
FDE Permissions Groups (DATA-2466)
New permissions groups support public FDE users and the future plans to enable anonymous users.
Data Usage Policy Notes in FDE Metadata (DATA-2415)
Data usage policy notes for each source document are available in the Usage Requirements column of the FDE metadata tab and in the Customize sidebar.
Updates
Import Feature for FAOB Data (DATA-2216)
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Acute Food Insecurity, Geography, and Markets and Trade packages are automatically published to the CKAN platform, and are passed to the website’s Data Center via a CKAN API (DATA-2377)
CKAN datasets are created for each geographic unit set version that has FEWS NET as the datasource organization, and contains resource for the shapefile, GEOJSON, KML, and CSV versions of the data (DATA-2245)
Refactor pipelines that publish datasets to CKAN destinations (DATA-2542)
Enhancements to Flexible Narrative Metadata (DATA-2388)
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A new running pipeline ingests Nigeria price data from Kobo.
Maintainer
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Information for Data Source Documents (DATA-2400)
The new maintainer
field for data source documents in FDW indicates the owner of the data.
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Data
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The ability to edit dataset fields, dataset parameters, and data series belonging to the dataset can now be set in FDW per dataset using the maintain_dataset
permission.
Data Collection Access Managed by Collect_Document Permission (DATA-2462)
FDW users’ access to data collections is managed by the collect_datasourcedocument
permission, which reflects the source documents for which users have rights to collect data.
Improvements to Public-Facing
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FIPE Extracts
Adjusted fields are included in Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates extracts to improve clarity and better facilitate the ability to create charts (DATA-2391)
Validation for IPCPopulationSize.description ensures that the value in the description match the value in the field (DATA-2402)
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Users can save data sets using an automatic summary reflecting the contents (DATA-1809)
Selecting the name of a dataset listed on the My Top Pages widget on the FDE homepage opens the dataset (DATA-2297)
Improved visual cues support user experience of the FDE built-in tour (DATA-2385)
A new FDE favicon was implemented (DATA-2403)
CH, FNFIS, and IPC_HH options are removed from the Acute Food Insecurity scale filters (DATA-2494)
Filtering by column was removed for data series tables (DATA-2495)
The time series export option in the crop domain was removed (DATA-2499)
New views were implemented for the Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimate and Acute Food Insecurity Classifications domains (DATA-2587)
Users can filter by scenario in the Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimate domain (DATA-2602)
User privileges were implemented (DATA-2606)
Bug Fixes
Duplicate Records in Spatial API (DATA-2506)
An issue where records were duplicated when a search term was found in more than one search field has now been corrected.
As_of_date filter for GeographicUnitViewSet or FeatureViewSet (DATA-2426)
Corrected an issue where calling relevant spatial APIs and passing a blank filter value via ?as_of_date=
did not return objects that are valid for the current date.
CSV and HTML Geographic Units Extract Failing (DATA-2453)
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The Geographic unit dropdown was not visible and trying to add data resulted in a 500 error. The geographic unit field is now editable in the various data series admin screens.
FDW Admin Home Page Release Notes Link (DATA-2673)
The link to view release notes on the FDW home page has been updated to point to recent updates.
Bug Fixes in the FDE
The Y axis that was incorrectly appearing for charts in the Secondary Price Index domain was removed (DATA-2527)Fixed naming to prevent duplicate Ethiopian geographic units in the Crop domain (DATA-2544)
Adjustments were made to the Chart zoom, Selected tab, and Clear Selection functionality in the Price domain (DATA-2603)
The table output was corrected for multiple source documents (DATA-2607)
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