Documentation overview
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Contents
System background
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- System requirements for use of InfoEx application
- Description of user levels
- List of supported offline functionalities
Personal administration
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
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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
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- Location catalog overview
- Location types and symbology
- Location hierarchy
- Adding locations to the location catalog
- Editing locations in the location catalog
- 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
Observations
Supported observation types
- Weather observations
- Field summaries
- Avalanche observations
- Avalanche summaries
- Snow Profiles
- Terrain management
- General messages
- Avalanche control (additional subscription required)
Customizations
Entering and submitting observations
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Workflows
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[9] Click to watch a help video: Workflow Modules : Context, Observations, Reports & Webpages
[10] Click to watch a help video: Workflow Modules : Snowpack & Hazard Assessment
[11] Click to watch a help video: Submitting Workflows & Viewing Historical
[12] Click to watch a help video: Managing Workflow Definitions
Workflow administration
Workflow modules
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
Other workflow modules
Using workflows
Persistent weak layers
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
InfoEx reports
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
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
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
InfoEx Extensions
Extension are additional functionalities of the InfoEx application that are available for additional subscription fees.
Run list extension
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- Specifying the status ratings for the run list module
- Run list workflow module
Avalanche control extension
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- Avalanche control extension overview
- Configuring the avalanche control extension
- Avalanche control data entry
- Avalanche control workflow module
- Viewing photo overlays of avalanche occurrences
- Creating a report to visualize the results of avalanche control efforts