The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.07 release to FDW/FDE.

New Features

News article notification feature in FDW

• FDW users with appropriate permissions can now set up automatic email notifications 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. To view, add, or edit email alerts, go to Metadata Management > Notifications > Subscriptions.

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• 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)

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• Data source documents in FDW now contain a field to specify usage license. The license tells us what rights the FEWS NET project, and other users if applicable, have to use the data in the source document. The license choices are the same as those in HDX and when this field is completed the HDX pipeline will automatically select the correct license when publishing data.

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New Geographic Unit genealogy charts in FDW

• Geographic Units in FDW now contain genealogy charts depicting the relationships of geographic units to each other over time. The relationships chart appears on the Geographic Unit page between the Description and the Features map. Learn more about geographic unit relationships and genealogy charts.

• This new feature was the result of a bug fix ticket, Crop production serializer duplicates geographic unit when aggregating (DATA-1654), in which trying to filter and extract crop production data resulted in mismatch of Country and Admin_0 columns information.

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Create endpoint to collect all saved datasets for a user across all domains (DATA-1684)

• There is now an API endpoint (https://fdw.fews.net/api/dataset) that searches across all domains for saved datasets. This API endpoint can be searched for id, name, description, visibility, or owner username by adding ?search=, separately or in combination with the following filters:

  • start_after

  • start_before

  • end_after

  • end_before

  • owner

  • visibility

  • specialization_type

  • created_after

  • created_before

  • modified_after

  • modified_before

Updates

Improved search functionality in Data Platform (DATA-1568)

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• The Import Price Ratios page was previously available only for the superadmin user group permission and not other groups of permissions. The import_priceratio permission was added to required groups to give them access to this page.

  Assigning the import_priceratio permission to a user or user group now gives the user or group access to the page.

Bug Fixes

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

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