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, name email report sending time zone and email address of your personal InfoEx account
• Resetting the password of your personal InfoEx account if you have forgotten it

Connecting to InfoEx

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

Personal settings

• Signing up for the daily InfoEx report emails

Operation administration

User administration

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• 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
  • Creating the geometry of a new location using the available drawing tools
  • Importing the geometry of a location from a KML file
• Editing locations in the location catalog
  • Editing the geometry of an existing location using the available drawing tools
  • Importing the geometry of a location from a KML file
• Deleting locations from the location catalog
• Changing the hierarchy among your locations
• Searching for a location in the location catalog
• Viewing photos
• Downloading your location catalog as a KML file

Other operational settings

• Specifying the operational setting for entering and submitting observations
• Specifying the status ratings for the run list module (additional subscription required)
• Configuring the avalanche control extension (additional subscription required)

Submission from third-party systems

• Submitting observations to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API

Observations

• Difference between observations and assessments

Supported observation types

• Weather observations
• Field summaries
• Avalanche observations
• Avalanche summaries
• Snow Profiles
• Terrain management
• General messages
• Avalanche control (additional subscription required)

Customizations

• Customizing observation entry forms

Entering and submitting observations

• Entering and submitting observations overview
  • Specifying the operational setting for entering and submitting observations
  • Entering and submitting observations (single computer)

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• • Entering and submitting observations (multiple computers)

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• Providing the exact location of an avalanche or snowpack observation

Workflows

• Workflow overview

Workflow administration

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

Workflow modules

Workflow modules for entering data that is shared among InfoEx subscribers

• Observations module
• Snowpack module
• Hazard assessment module
• Hazard comment module

Workflow modules for entering proprietary data

• Free form module
• Run list module (additional subscription required)
• Avalanche control module (additional subscription required)

Workflow modules for viewing data

• Webpage module
• Report module

Other workflow modules

• Context module
• Workflow summary

Using workflows

• Executing a workflow instance
• Viewing previously completed workflows

Persistent weak layers

• Persistent weak layer overview

Operation PWLs

• Creating a new operation PWL
• Modifying the baseline information of an existing operation PWL
• Deleting an existing operation PWL

Community PWLs

• Creating a new community PWL
• Modifying the information for an existing community PWL
• Deleting an existing community PWL

Assessing PWLs

• Snowpack module

InfoEx reports

• InfoEx report views

Customizing reports

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• 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
  • Including or excluding proprietary information in an InfoEx report
• Layout
  • Specifying the order of the tables in an InfoEx report
  • Grouping of observations within tables
  • Sorting individual tables in an InfoEx report
  • 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

Viewing report templates

• Viewing a specific InfoEx report template
• Downloading your own data

Map Layers

• Operation overview
• Avalanche observations
• Avalanche hazard
• Snow Profiles
• Field summary
• Weather observations
• Time slider (used for all map layers)
• Additional external information sources

Charts

• Viewing and downloading charts

InfoEx Extensions

Extension are additional functionalities of the InfoEx application that are available for additional subscription fees.

Run list extension

• Run list extension overview
• Specifying the status ratings for the run list module
• Run list workflow module
• Run list PDF print out

Avalanche control extension

• Avalanche control extension overview
• Configuring the avalanche control extension
• Avalanche control data entry
  • Configuring the avalanche control data entry form
  • Drawing an avalanche occurrence in the Goggle Earth interface
  • Drawing an avalanche occurrence an oblique photo
• Avalanche control workflow module
• Viewing photo overlays of avalanche occurrences
• Creating a report to visualize the results of avalanche control efforts

Other

• Definitions
• Weather Services