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 21.07.3

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

• 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 as a result makes the data importing process easy and fast.

Tasks

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 the existing data from 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 data point values with more than eight digits and this was resolved . The values can now be 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.