The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.06 release to FDW/FDE.

New Features

New features in the News Articles Dashboard

• Users can now filter articles by source country, tags, and publication date. Tags and source country are both assigned to a news source, rather than individual articles, by adding or editing a source in the FDW under Metadata management > News articles > Sources. See the help text for additional details on using the filters and adding countries and tags to sources.

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• This feature includes the following Jira issues:

  • Add country filters and general tagging for News Aggregator app (DATA-1551)

  • Add search by source country and tags to the News Aggregator dashboard (DATA-1573)

  • Make News Article Dashboard filterable by date (DATA-1604)

Updates

Comprehensive Metadata Updates

• Draft metadata documentation is now available for price cross tab and price indices data extracts.

• This update includes the following Jira issues:

  • Comprehensive Metadata for Price Cross-Tabs (DATA-1473)

  • Comprehensive Metadata for Price Indices (DATA-1580)

Upload Revised Zimbabwe FSC Shapefiles (DATA-1566)

• Revised Zimbabwe 2013 and 2021 shape files have been uploaded to FDW as follows:

  • Country and regional shape files on the website (e.g., https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcpackage/?country_code=ZW&collection_date=2022-04-01, https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcpackage/?country_group=903&collection_date=2022-04-01)

  • The shape files attached to the 2013 and 2021 ZW FSC geographic unit set versions in the FDW (e.g., https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/spatial/geographicunitsetversion/193/change/?_changelist_filters=geographicunitset__country__iso3166a2__exact%3DZW, https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/spatial/geographicunitsetversion/3410/change/?_changelist_filters=geographicunitset__country__iso3166a2__exact%3DZW)

Change the status of aggregated records(datapoints) from calculated to aggregated. (DATA-1575)

• The status of all aggregated datapoints has been changed from calculated to aggregated. This ensures that aggregated records are easily differentiated from calculated domain records.

Enable Helptext to be accessible to public users without a FDW Login ID (DATA-1583)

• FDE and FDW helptext is now available without a login required. This allows users accessing publicly available dashboards (e.g., News Aggregator and Import Dependence Dashboard) to also access relevant helptext.

Update South Sudan Data in FDW (DATA-1610)

• This update allows a user to upload IPC data with a phase description (e.g., Famine or Famine Likely) in addition to phase values (e.g., 5).

FTFCT Ukraine Resource Gathering - Sites and keywords to add (DATA-1639)

• Additional news sources related to the war in Ukraine were added to the News Aggregator dashboard.

Add Import functionality for Price Ratios (DATA-1642)

• FDW users with the appropriate permissions are now able to bulk upload price ratios. This functionality can be accessed using the path below:

  • Data Analysis > Calculated Data Sets > Relative Prices > Import relative prices (i.e., https://fdw.fews.net/en/admin/price/priceratio/import/)

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Bug Fixes

Filtering either by Geographic or Market Filters of the exchange rate data of the country Haiti results in all of the exchange rate data of all the countries (DATA-1390)

• Filtering either by Geographic or Market Filters of the exchange rate data for Haiti (e.g., https://fdw.fews.net/api/exchangeratevaluefacts/?format=html&subtype=ExchangeRateValue&country_code=HT&fields=simple) returned exchange rate data for all FDW countries. This issue has been fixed and now returns correct exchange rate data for Haiti.

Spatial Export Bug Fix (DATA-1562)

• In the spatial domain, population and demography estimates were not being shown in the data extract when shapefile attributes were included. This issue has been fixed.

Link to data disclaimer broken (DATA-1585)

• The link to the data disclaimer in the footer of the FDE was broken. This link has been fixed.