The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.11 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.
New Features
New FDE Filter View (DATA-2094)
FDE now contains a Selected Filters section. This allows users to view all selected filters at once and remove filters more easily. This section can be expanded and collapsed.
Updates
Update to LandScan 2021 (DATA-1193)
Landscan data for 2020 and 2021 has been uploaded to FDW.
Automated ingestion of Price Projection spreadsheets from Google Drive (DATA-1879)
A pipeline has been created that ingests price projection spreadsheets from Google Drive into the FDW.
Include ComTrade TradeValue in the Trade extracts (DATA-1899)
An update was made to the TradeFlowQuantity serializers so that trade value and currency data can be extracted via the API in json, csv and html formats.
More Comprehensive Metadata
Additional work has been done to provide comprehensive metadata information in the data platform. This includes:
Adding a metadata end point for warehouse.datapoint (DATA-1968)
Adding a metadata end point for Calculated Price Indexes (DATA-1971)
Updating all indicators in FDW to include aggregation and description fields (DATA-1973)
Responsive FDE
Work continues to make a responsive FDE design that is useable across various screen sizes and device types. This includes:
A more consistent application view on all screens and devices (DATA-2099)
Responsive data series tables (DATA-2127)
Responsive visualization and export sections (DATA-2164)
A responsive FDE homepage (DATA-2201)
FDE User Support Refinements
FDE updates include updating the built-in tour to include new features, refining the metadata interface, and ensuring all pages have a corresponding help link. This includes the following tickets:
Design Implementation: Update FDE built-in tour to address interface changes (DATA-2107)
FDE metadata UI refinements (DATA-2125)
Add help with this page links to pages without them (DATA-2200)
Updates to KoBo Toolbox
Updates were made to KoBo Toolbox including:
South Sudan Kobo toolbox form fixes to the market filter and product availability sections (DATA-2113)
The addition of a spreadsheet that connects to Kobo to pull data for review for South Sudan (DATA-2113)
An update to the enumerator locations for East Africa Cross-Border Trade Kobo Data (DATA-2141)
Add foreign name fields to some GeographicUnit & ClassifiedProduct data serializers (DATA-2153)
Foreign name fields have been added to the Geographic Unit and Classified Product serializers in order to support translations into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.
Bug Fixes
Fix select lists and inherited docstrings in rapidoc documentation (DATA-1933)
Edits were made to the rapidoc API documentation to make it more complete and user friendly.
Bug Fixes in the FDW (DATA-2050, DATA-2198)
A variety of bugs in the refreshed FDW were fixed including buttons rendering incorrectly, an invalid error message, some incorrect links, incorrect text placement in dashboards, and the inability to view complete metadata in the data collections table.
Bug Fixes in the FDE
A variety of bugs were fixed based on FDE version 2 beta testing. These include:
Country filters were not in alphabetical order in the FDE (DATA-2073)
FDE interface disappeared when "Daily" or "Weekly" reporting schedule was selected in the Price domain (DATA-2121)
Clear Search and Save Search buttons would not appear for the Period date fields (DATA-2156)
The Metadata tab was not working correctly in the Crop and Trade domains (DATA-2185)
Kobo form design changes on development server are reflected on production (DATA-2109)
Changes to KoBo forms made in the development environment were erroneously being reflected in the production environment. This error has been fixed.
Population Indicator Viewset search is not working (DATA-2110)
The populationindicator endpoint in the API was working inconsistently. This has been fixed and there are now a functional search and page size filters on this endpoint.
The Staple Food Price data downloaded from the website is not updated correctly (DATA-2184, DATA-2204)
Staple food price data was not updated due to an error with cached requests not working as expected in FDW. Both issues have been resolved and are now working correctly.
Price Projection data points have same lowerbound and upperbound values for all periods (DATA-2186)
The Price Projection spreadsheets contain different lower and upper bound values for each period date, but these values were showing up as the same in FDW. This was because the two columns were treating them as metadata columns by the FDW. The error has been fixed and upper and lower bound values in FDW are the same as in the spreadsheet.