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October 2022 Release Notes

Owned by Allison Nederveld
Last updated: Nov 22, 2022
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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.

The Humanitarian Food Assistance screen in the FDW.

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, DATA-2045)

  • 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-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.

A look at some of the new features in the refreshed FDE.

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 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.

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.

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.

Refreshed FDE Fixes

A variety of fixes and updates were completed for the refreshed FDE based on testing and feedback:

  • Exchange rate type filter was added (DATA-1958)

  • Fixed scroll arrows in data selection table (DATA-1961)

  • Changed Markets from M49 to FN Regions (DATA-1983)

  • Changed FDE sidebar domain title to "Acute Food Insecurity Classifications" (DATA-2007)

  • Limited filter options based on available data (DATA-2012, DATA-2013)

  • Fixed a bug with the start date filter in the Price domain (DATA-2070)

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.