Documentation overview

System background

• System requirements for use of InfoEx application
• Description of user levels
• List of supported offline functionalities

Personal administration

CAA InfoEx user database

• Signing up for a personal InfoEx account
• Changing the password of your personal InfoEx account
• Resetting your password of your personal InfoEx account

Connecting to the InfoEx

• Installing the InfoEx application
• Updating to the latest version of the InfoEx application
• Logging into the InfoEx

Personal settings

• Signing up for the daily InfoEx report emails

Operation administration

User administration

• Adding users to your operation
• Changing the permission level of an existing user of your operation
• Removing a user from your operation

Location administration

• Location catalog overview
• Location types and symbology
• Location hierarchy
• Adding locations to the location catalog
  • Entering the geometry of a location using the available drawing tools
  • Importing the geometry of a location from a KML file
• Deleting locations from the location catalog
• Editing locations in the location catalog
• Changing the hierarchy among your locations
• Searching for a location in the location catalog

Other operational settings

• Specifying the operational setting for entering and submitting observations

Submission from third-party systems

• Submitting observations to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API

CAA administration

Subscriber administration

• Creating a new operation
• Migrating an operation from the old CAAML-based InfoEx system to the new InfoEx system
• Specifing the default sort order of operations for the tabular InfoEx report

Submissions from third-party systems

• Providing operators with necessary credentials for submitting to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API
• Submitting observations to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API

Observations

• Difference between observations and assessments

Observation entry

• Entering and submitting observations overview
  • Specifying the operational setting for entering and submitting observations
  • Entering and submitting observations (single computer)
  • Entering and submitting observations (multiple computers)
• Providing the exact location of an avalanche or snowpack observation

Customizations

• Customizing observation entry forms

Workflows

• Workflow overview

Workflow administration

• Creating a workflow template
• Deleting a workflow template
• Editing a workflow template

Workflow modules

Module with data submission

• Context module
• Observations module
• Snowpack module
• Hazard assessment - simple module
• Hazard assessment - detail module

Modules without data submission

• Webpage module
• Report module

Using workflows

• Starting a workflow instance
• Viewing previously completed workflows

Persistent weak layers

• Persistent weak layer overview
• Operation PWLs
• Community PWLs
• Snowpack and workflow PWL module

InfoEx reports

• InfoEx report views

Customizing reports

• Content
  • Specifying the date or date range of an InfoEx report
  • Restricting the locations included in an InfoEx report
  • Specifying the tables to be included in an InfoEx report
  • Adding or removing columns of individual tables in an InfoEx report
  • Applying filters to individual tables in an InfoEx report
• Layout
  • Specifying the order of the tables in an InfoEx report
  • Grouping of observations within tables
  • Single page view versus individual tabs for tables

Managing report templates

• Saving a report as an InfoEx report template
• Modifying an existing InfoEx report template
• Deleting an existing InfoEx report template
• Signing up for the daily InfoEx report emails

Other

• Definitions

Help Files

• Guide to 'How-to' wiki pages
  • How-to page code template
• List of categories
• Central stylesheet