Dated: 12 November, 2021
Introduction
The following list of new features, tasks and resolved bugs are included in the latest Sprint 21.10.2 release to FDW/FDE:
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This enhancement is about adding a validation error message, i.e ( which is stated as:
Availability should be set to 0 (Zero) or left empty for unavailable prices) , for adding an availability value other than zero for theNot Availabledata point values.
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Replace the Southern Africa Cross-Border Trade on Data Centre with a direct download from FDW https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1064
This implementation feature enhancement allows the direct download of the Souter Southern Africa Cross Border Trade data file from the data center on the FEWS NET website (https://fdw.fews.net/api/tradeflowquantityvalue/?dataset=SA XBT trade dataset&format=xlsx&fields=website) and the downloaded file contains the selected fields fit for the website extracts.
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This feature is about introducing a pipeline that imports FAOB data into FDW. While this feature enables the functionality, there will be future work to improve upon the user interface and allow the project to utilize the data more effectively.
Enhancements to Market Price Time Series extracts https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1129
This feature is about enhancing the time series extract of the market price data across multiple areas (for instance, https://fdw.fews.net/api/marketpricefacts/?format=html×eries=true&dataseries=6453165) which includes the following:
Showing Country or Geographic Region for the national-level Exchange rates columns.
Adding new metadata heading column after the last exchange rate and before the first secondary price index with the same values except using "base value" instead of "unit" and "name" instead of indicator_type.
Updating the existing second metadata heading column that appears before the first exchange rate so that it uses "-" instead of "base period"; "rate type" instead of "indicator type".
Removing prefix from the base value and base period metadata values.
Using “Collected" instead of "Stored" as the "field_source” for the Exchange Rate and Secondary Price Index data series which are retrieved from the system.
Using the actual indicator name of the exchange rates , such as e.g. "Domestic Currency per USD" instead of the generic "Exchange Rate".
Rounding Exchange Rate Values to 8 decimal places.
Populating the Latitude and Longitude metadata for the Market-level exchange rates.
Create specific viewsets for calculated data series https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1135
This feature is about implementing the
,calculatedpriceindex,calculatedpriceindexvalue,calculatedpriceindexvaluefacts,priceratio,priceratiovalueandpriceratiovaluefactsAPIs (i.e :(which return data series with the appropriate domain-specific metadata, for instance,
Add "Fare" to market products price_type https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1178
This enhancement is about incorporating the
Fareprice type to the price Price data domaindomain. It is selectable under the price type dropdown list . (i.e ( https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/price/marketproduct/add/).
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This feature enhanced the search and filter capability capabilities of the Exchange Rate data series endpoint (
/api/exchangerate) so that it used searches all country currency assignments instead of just the country assigned to the Data Series.
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This enhancement is about removing the current copyright footer and adding the right disclaimer page to the Help text found on the platform (i.e. https://fdw.fews.net/en/docs/home/data_disclaimer/data_disclaimer.html).
Allow `NOT_COLLECTED` data points to be reported and imported in a generic way https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1201
This feature is about allowing the generic import of data points with a
Not Collectedstatus which later can be replaced with the actual status and data values.
Review Other domain end points to ensure they point to their specific end points for specific metadata https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1206
This feature is about further enhancing the other Other data domain (also known as the Semi-Structured domain) end point of the
Secondary Price Indexwhich now return data with the appropriate domain-specific metadata (i.e http://fdw.fews.net/api/priceindex/ and http://fdw.fews.net/api/priceindexvaluefacts/) of theSecondary Price Indexwhich return data with the appropriate domain-specific metadata.
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Tasks
Commodity Balances historic data upload https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-820
This task was about uploading the commodity balances historic data and it was successfully loaded to the platform (i.e. ( https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/balance/commoditybalance/).
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This task was about making Drupal node title change from Central America and Caribbean to Guatemala and Haiti on the http://fews.net website.
Bugs
The buttons “Download “ , “Browse” , “Chart” and the “Excel Web Query URL” are missing from the price data set page of the FDW https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1189
In the price Price data set page of the FDW (i.e ( https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/price/pricedataset/), the buttons
Download,Browse,Chartand theExcel Web Query URLwere missing and this was resolved.
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New price data information for Zimbabwe is not recognized by the FDW https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1207
There was a problem in the system recognizing the price data for the country Zimbabwe and this was resolved and the metadata successfully loaded.
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