The following list of new features, updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 22.07 release to FDW/FDE.

New Features

News article notification feature in FDW

• FDW users with appropriate permissions can now set up automatic email notifications based on pre-defined criteria. When a new news article is downloaded matching those criteria, an email is sent to the email address(es) specified in the alert. To view, add, or edit email alerts, go to Metadata Management > Notifications > Subscriptions.

• This feature includes the following Jira issues:

  • Add News URLs to the main FDW URL patterns (DATA-1581)

  • Create alerts or news digests for articles that match certain criteria (DATA-1592)

  • Enable view set country and tag filters, and unit tests. (DATA-1603)

Data Source Document license information (DATA-1559)

• Data source documents in FDW now contain a field to specify usage license. The license tells us what rights the FEWS NET project, and other users if applicable, have to use the data in the source document. The license choices are the same as those in HDX and when this field is completed the HDX pipeline will automatically select the correct license when publishing data.

New Geographic Unit genealogy charts in FDW

• Geographic Units in FDW now contain genealogy charts depicting the relationships of geographic units to each other over time. The relationships chart appears on the Geographic Unit page between the Description and the Features map. Learn more about geographic unit relationships and genealogy charts.

• This new feature was the result of a bug fix ticket, Crop production serializer duplicates geographic unit when aggregating (DATA-1654), in which trying to filter and extract crop production data resulted in mismatch of Country and Admin_0 columns information.

Create endpoint to collect all saved datasets for a user across all domains (DATA-1684)

• There is now an API endpoint (https://fdw.fews.net/api/dataset) that searches across all domains for saved datasets. This API endpoint can be searched for id, name, description, visibility, or owner username by adding ?search=, separately or in combination with the following filters:

  • start_after

  • start_before

  • end_after

  • end_before

  • owner

  • visibility

  • specialization_type

  • created_after

  • created_before

  • modified_after

  • modified_before

Updates

Improved search functionality in Data Platform (DATA-1568)

• Users now have greater control over their searches in FDE and FDW. New functionality includes:

  • Search for an exact phrase by using single or double quotation marks (e.g., if you search for vegetable oil, you will get all results that have either of those words but searching "vegetable oil" or ‘vegetable oil’ will yield only results that include that exact phrase).

  • Exclude terms by using a minus (-) symbol (e.g. searching 'vegetable oil' -'palm oil' will return all results about vegetable oil unless they include a reference to palm oil).

  • Expand your search by using or (e.g. searching “sunflower oil” “palm oil” will surface results containing both phrases, but searching "sunflower oil” or “palm oil" provides you with results that contain either phrase).

New validation error message when time field left blank (DATA-1619)

• When adding a new dataset in FDW, if the start and end dates are filled with a date but not a time, a validation error will prompt users to “Enter a valid time.” This new validation error message ensures that the page remains responsive.

New import_priceratio permission in FDW (DATA-1679)

• The Import Price Ratios page was previously available only for the superadmin user group permission and not other groups of permissions. The import_priceratio permission was added to required groups to give them access to this page.

  Assigning the import_priceratio permission to a user or user group now gives the user or group access to the page.

Bug Fixes

Updating the Description text field of the Data usage policy results in 500 Internal Error (DATA-1593)

• Trying to edit the Description Field of a Data usage policy in FDW was resulting in a 500 Internal Error. This issue has been fixed.

Updating unit of measure results in 500 Internal Error (DATA-1614)

• In FDW, trying to update the Abbreviation field of the unit of measure resulted in a 500 Internal Error. The Abbreviation field has been updated to be read-only and not editable.