The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.04 release to FDW/FDE.
New Features
New Food Security Classification file types available for download from fews.net (DATA-1369) Visitors to the fews.net data center can now download Food Security Classification files in KML and GeoJSON formats in addition to the shapefiles and PNG files that were already available. This option is currently available only for new files (March - September 2022), not historic files.
Draft metadata documentation available in Price, Crop, and Trade domains
Users can now utilize the FEWS NET data platform API to access metadata definitions and details corresponding to their data extract in the Price, Crop, and Trade domains. To access, add the word metadata to your API call link between the endpoint and parameters. For example:
If your API call is:
/api/marketpricefacts/?dataseries=2567202&format=html
You can call metadata definitions using:
/api/marketpricefacts/metadata/?dataseries=2567202&format=html
This information can be accessed in html, PDF, or JSON formats.
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This new feature includes the following Jira issues:Coming soon: This work is being expanded to include updates to metadata definitions, additional domains, and the ability to access metadata definitions from a tab within the FDE.
Updates
Include IPC 3.1 in FDE classification scales filter (DATA-1386)
In the IPC FIC domain of the FDE, users now have the option of choosing IPC v3.1 in the scale filter dropdown. [ADD SCREENSHOT]
Import Dependency dashboard updates
The Import Dependency dashboard now offers multiple options for the x-axis. In addition to HDI, users can choose to plot according to two SDG indictors: percent of population below national poverty line and percent prevalence of undernourishment.
In addition, two new visualizations have been added to the dashboard. The first graph shows time series of imports for a selected destination country. The second compares the percentage split between the different source countries across destination countries.
A bug has also been fixed so that selected countries do not reset when a new product is selected.
This new feature includes the following Jira issues:
Create TradeFlowQuantityValueFactsViewSet (DATA-1431)
A new API endpoint,/api/tradeflowquantityvaluefacts/, was added that allows trade flow quantity data points to be viewed with associated statistics.
Update Sub-National Crop Production Data for Ukraine (DATA-1449)
Additional sub-national crop production data for Ukraine, through the 2021 harvests, has been added to the FDW.
Adding Angola as an RM country (DATA-1500)
Angola has been added to FDW as a remote monitoring country.
Extract of additional attributes in FDE Spatial domain does not work (DATA-1516)
In the Spatial domain of the FDE, there was an option under the Export tab to Please select the FSZ attributes you would like to include. It has been moved to the Options tab and now reads Include shapefile attributes? Selecting yes for this option will include all attributes associated with the original shapefile (e.g., ADMIN0, ADMIN1, lzname, lzcode) This is an update to the feature requested in DATA-1073.
Replace the "Email Support" Link on FDE and FDW with Link to Helpdesk Portal (DATA-1530)
In the FDW and FDE, under Help, the link to contact the Helpdesk has changed from Mail us: helpdesk@fews.net to a Helpdesk Support menu item that links to the Helpdesk Portal.
Bug Fixes
Enable caching for IPC shape files (DATA-1425)
Caching of IPC shapefiles was disabled after a previous change and has now been re-enabled.
Population extracts in FDE spatial domain do not support demography year parameter (DATA-1517)
In the spatial domain of the FDE, the option to choose a population year for population and demography estimates was not working correctly. This issue has been fixed.
Failure in FAO Ingestion Pipeline (DATA-1518)
An update was recently made so that when fetching data from web services, if there is a failure in one document due to unmatched metadata, other documents from that web service can still successfully pull data. This update was not working correctly and has been fixed.
FDE appends `fields=simple` to spatial data requests that have `fields=with_population` (DATA-1527)
Exports for population estimates in the FDE spatial domain were not working correctly. When the Population Data option in the Options tab was set to include population estimates, the export contained geographic information only. This issue has been fixed and downloads are working correctly.
Fix dataset parameter and standard visualizations rendering (DATA-1536)
Visualizations in the FDW Price Charts dashboard were not rendering correctly for all data. This issue has been fixed.