Release Notes for Data Sprint 21.07

Introduction

In this Release Notes document, the following main features, tasks and defects have been resolved and deployed to the FDE/FDW production server - Version 20.07.3

Features

• Rename Eswatini in the FDW https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1004

• Adding 5 year average % change in forex extracts https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1017

• Create specific viewsets for Secondary Price Indexes https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1020

• Select the correct exchange rate indicator when adding new Exchange rates https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1021

• Single Sign-on for Superset https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1024

• Add username to the notification email which sends notice of data publication https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1032

• Support a mixture of fields_shortcuts and individual fields in DataPointSerializer subclasses https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1037

• Strip spaces before and after all strings on import https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1041     

Tasks

• Support for enabling FAO API ingestion in FDW production https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-952    

• Migrate the Southern Africa Crop Tour form and data to forms.fews.net https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1026                  

Bugs

Investigate failure in data point values update with more that 8 digits after decimal point https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-981

Change Geographic Unit Admin screen very slow https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1003

The check box for selecting all the data of the data collections is missing https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1039

Allow multiple datasource documents for trade dataseries https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1042

Features

Rename Eswatini in the FDW https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1004

• This enhancement is about renaming all the spatial layers of the FDW from Swaziland  to Eswatini i.e (https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/spatial/feature/?q=Eswatini).

Adding 5 year average % change in forex extracts https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1017

• This enhancement is about incorporating the parameter pct_change_from_five_year_average in the exchange rate extract i.e (https://fdw.fews.net/api/exchangeratevaluefacts/?format=html&subtype=ExchangeRateValue&fields=simple).

Create specific viewsets for Secondary Price Indexes https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1020

• This feature is about implementing the APIs i.e (http://fdw.fews.net/api/priceindex, http://fdw.fews.net/api/priceindexvalue and http://fdw.fews.net/api/priceindexvaluefacts) for the Secondary Price Indexes which return data series with the appropriate domain-specific metadata.

Select the correct exchange rate indicator when adding new Exchange rates https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1021

• This feature is about making the exchange rate indicator a read only field and implementing validation when a user enters a new exchange rate data i.e (https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/price/exchangerate/add/).

Single Sign-on for Superset https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1024

• This enhancement is about implementing a Single Sign-on functionality using the FEWSNET accounts for accessing the Superset.

Add username to the notification email which sends notice of data publication https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1032

• This feature is about adding the field username to the notification email which notifies Published or Under Review data collections.

Support a mixture of fields_shortcuts and individual fields in DataPointSerializer subclasses https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1037

• The API end points of the DataPointSerializer have been enhanced to support a mixture fields_shortcuts and individual fields, such as ,  (https://fdw.fews.net/api/marketpricefacts/?format=html&country_code=ET&product=maize&start_date=2021-03-01&fields=simple,status_changed) &

  (https://fdw.fews.net/api/geographicunit/?format=html&fields=simple,status_changed,with_population,with_attributes&unit_set_version=3319).

Strip spaces before and after all strings on import https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1041

• This feature is about removing appended or prefixed spaces in the metadata header fields of the file that will be imported into the system which makes the data importing process easy and fast.

Tasks

Support for enabling FAO API ingestion in FDW production https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-952    

• This task was about enabling the FAO API ingestion functionality in the Production site of the FDW and as well as providing support on it .

Migrate the Southern Africa Crop Tour form and data to forms.fews.net https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1026     

• This task was about migrating the southern Africa crop tour form and data from the existing Kobo server into http://fews.net forms.

Bugs

Investigate failure in datapoint values update with more that 8 digits after decimal point https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-981

• There was an issue in updating the data point values with more than eight digits and this was resolved . The values can now automatically rounded and successfully updated through the admin import screen.

Change Geographic Unit Admin screen very slow https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1003

• The Geographic Unit Admin change screen , for instance , (https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/spatial/geographicunit/202385/change/) was slow in loading the page and this was resolved .

The check box for selecting all the data of the data collections is missing https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1039

• In the data collection screen i.e (https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/warehouse/datacollection/) , the check box for selecting all the data was missing and this was resolved.

Allow multiple datasource documents for trade dataseries https://fewsnet.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-1042

• There was an issue in importing the cross border trade data which are tied to more than one data source document and this was resolved.