Installing the InfoEx application - Revision history

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 |Bookmark {{InfoExURL}} for future reference. This is the starting point for all of your InfoEx interactions. You will be able to start the application even without an Internet connection.
-{{Note|If you bookmark the InfoEx application with your username/email address (e.g., {{InfoExURL|?email&#61;user@avalanche.ca}}), your username will automatically be prefilled and you do not have to type it every time.}}
+{{Note|If you bookmark the InfoEx application with your username/email address (e.g., {{InfoExURL|?email&#61;user@domain.ca}}), your username will automatically be prefilled and you do not have to type it every time.}}
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 ==Functionality tested by==
-* Dec. 22: Pascal Haegeli
+* Nov. 20, 2015: Stuart Smith
 [[Category:Super User]][[Category:Operation Administrator]][[Category:Submission Moderator]][[Category:User]][[Category:Administration]][[Category:Version 3.3.0]]

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-|Ensure that you have the '''Google Earth plug-in for browsers''' installed on your computer. This is different from the Google Earth application.
+|Visit {{InfoExURL}} to access the latest version of the '''InfoEx application'''.
-* Visit http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html in your Google Chrome browser.
+{{Note|When you visit this URL for the first time, the entire InfoEx application will be downloaded to your computer. Please ensure that you have a decent Internet connection as this download is approximately 6 MB.}}
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-|Visit {{InfoExURL}} to access the latest version of the '''InfoEx application'''.
+|[[File:LargeAmountsData.png|300px|thumb|right|Fig. 1: Google Chrome dialog regarding local storage of large amounts of data.]] When you visit InfoEx for the first time, Google Chrome will ask you ''"{{InfoExURL}} wants to permanently store large data on your local computer"'' in a yellow bar at the top of the page (Fig. 1). Click {{ButtonGrey|OK}} to continue.
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 |class="StepNum" | 4.
 |Bookmark {{InfoExURL}} for future reference. This is the starting point for all of your InfoEx interactions. You will be able to start the application even without an Internet connection.
 {{Note|If you bookmark the InfoEx application with your username/email address (e.g., {{InfoExURL|?email&#61;user@avalanche.ca}}), your username will automatically be prefilled and you do not have to type it every time.}}

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 ==Background==
-The new InfoEx system is a web application that runs in a browser. When you load the application for the first time from the URL, it is downloaded and stored in the application cache of your browser. Having it stored locally will allow you to use certain features of the application (e.g., observation entry) even when you do not have an Internet connection.
+The InfoEx system is a web application that runs in a browser. When you load the application for the first time from the URL, it is downloaded and stored in the application cache of your browser. Having it stored locally will allow you to use certain features of the application (e.g., observation entry) even when you do not have an Internet connection.
 See [[System requirements for use of InfoEx application]] for details on supported configurations for the InfoEx application.

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 |Bookmark {{InfoExURL}} for future reference. This is the starting point for all of your InfoEx interactions. You will be able to start the application even without an Internet connection.
-{{Note|If you bookmark the InfoEx application with your username/email address (e.g., {{InfoExURL|?email&#61;user@avalanche.ca}}), your username will will automatically be prefilled and you do not have to type it every time.}}
+{{Note|If you bookmark the InfoEx application with your username/email address (e.g., {{InfoExURL|?email&#61;user@avalanche.ca}}), your username will automatically be prefilled and you do not have to type it every time.}}
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-|When you visit the InfoEx site for the first time, Google Chrome will ask you ''"{{InfoExURL}} wants to permanently store large data on your local computer"'' in a yellow bar at the top of the page. Click {{ButtonGrey|OK}} to continue.
+|[[File:LargeAmountsData.png|300px|thumb|right|Fig. 1: Google Chrome dialog regarding local storage of large amounts of data.]] When you visit the InfoEx site for the first time, Google Chrome will ask you ''"{{InfoExURL}} wants to permanently store large data on your local computer"'' in a yellow bar at the top of the page (Fig. 1). Click {{ButtonGrey|OK}} to continue.
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 ==Related documents==
-* [[System requirements for use of InfoEx application]]
+{{PagesConnectingToInfoEx}}
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