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A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
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In indicator-based explorers, allow referencing indicators by ETL path #3711

Open marcelgerber opened 2 weeks ago

marcelgerber commented 2 weeks ago

Core problem

Currently, in indicator-based explorers, we can only reference indicators using their ID.

However, that ID is not meaningful in any way, and moreover, it is not stable between different (staging) servers.

Proposed solution

We should enable referencing indicators by ETL path.

Context

We want to have this feature usable by Jul 11, for the update of the world population explorer.

Where should the resolution "ETL path -> indicator ID" happen?

We talked quickly about this in a dev meeting, and we prefer doing this at bake time.