The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.10 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.
New Features
Introduce IPC HFA data domain (DATA-557)
The FDW is now able to capture Humanitarian Food Assistance Data. This data can be accessed by going to Dataseries Management > Acute Food Insecurity > Humanitarian Food Assistance.
Updates available in the refreshed FDE
The refreshed FDE now has a variety of new features including:
The ability for users to hide data series with zero data points (DATA-1869)
A new support widget (DATA-1926)
All domains now include an info popup for each data series that includes additional information including the data usage policy (DATA-1934, DATA-2097)
The ability for users to view metadata for selected data series within FDE (DATA-1942, DATA-1969, DATA-1972, DATA-2091)
A new design for the search and filter section that is useable on a variety of device types (DATA-2116)
Read more about these features.
Refreshed FDW interface
The FDW user interface has been refreshed to reflect the new FEWS NET brand. Changes include:
A new home page with widgets that make FDW more efficient
The ability to change the language in FDW
New colors to indicate country categories in the import dependency dashboard
A variety of updates to colors, fonts, button positions, and other stylistic elements
Read more about the updates to the FDW. These changes included many tickets from prior sprints and several in this sprint (DATA-2035, DATA-2036, DATA-2040, DATA-2042).
Updates
Add filtering by keyword for News Article API (DATA-1651)
The News Article API now accepts keywords as a filter parameter.
Updates to KoBo Toolbox
Several updates were made to the FEWS NET KoBoToolbox dashboard and forms including:
Updates to the pipeline that ingests KoBo cross border trade data into FDW (DATA-1778)
The addition of a spreadsheet to aid in the validation of KoBo data (DATA-1793)
Updates to the East Africa cross border trade form to collect the GPS location of enumerator and pre-fill the country and border point (DATA-1811)
Upgrading to latest version in order to access a new row-based permission feature (DATA-1827)
Faster API renders of endpoints with large drop-downs (DATA-1913)
Some endpoints, particularly ipcphase, were taking a long time to render in API format. Edits have been made which now allow them to render more quickly.
Refreshed domain names (DATA-1922, DATA-1939)
The names of the domains in the Data Platform have been reviewed and several have been updated across the refreshed FDE, FDW, and HDX. Name changes can be reviewed here.
Bug Fixes
Trying to open the Semi Structured Data Point page results in 500 Internal Server Error (DATA-1656)
Trying to open https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/semistructured/semistructureddatapoint/ was resulting in an error. This has been fixed and is now working correctly.
Unable to update datasourcedocument name (DATA-1929)
Users were unable to update a source document name when no license information was selected. This error has been corrected and users can now update data source document names.
Investigate issues with refresh materialized views debouncing incorrectly. (DATA-1935)
Uploaded data collections were taking a long time to update in FDW because the refresh materialized views were not running correctly. This has been corrected.
Fix Comtrade unit test errors (DATA-1938)
The way the Comtrade tests were testing the dates meant that on the first day of the month they would fail. This has been fixed.
Update FAO pipeline based on changes in remote API (DATA-1943)
Recent changes to the FAO remote API effected the FAO pipeline. Updates were made to the pipeline and it is now working as expected.
Fix safety warning for protobuf (DATA-1954)
A safety error was causing issues in the CI pipelines. This has been fixed and the pipelines now run correctly.
Bug when uploading XLSForm, both in old fdw KoBo and latest version (DATA-2010)
When uploading XLSForms sometimes there is no task registered. This has been fixed and XLSForms can now be successfully uploaded to the deployments.
SaveNewArticles fails for articles from multiple sources (DATA-2083)
An error was occurring when an article with the same URL was been downloaded from two different sources. This has been fixed and articles are now being ingested without error.