Documentation overview

System background

• System requirements for use of InfoEx application
• Installing the InfoEx application
• Updating to the latest version of the InfoEx application
• Description of user levels
• List of supported offline functionalities

Personal administration

• Signing up for a personal InfoEx account
• Resetting or changing the password for your personal InfoEx account
• Logging into the InfoEx
• Signing up for the daily InfoEx report emails

Operation 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
• User administration
  • Adding users to your operation
  • Removing a user from your operation
• Single versus multi-computer setup
• Submission from a third-party system
  • How to submit observation to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API

CAA administration

• How to provide operators with necessary credentials for submitting to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API
• How to create a new operation
• How to migrate an operation from the old CAAML-based InfoEx system to the new InfoEx system
• How to specify the default sort order of operations for the tabular InfoEx report

Observations

• Difference between observations and assessments
• Entering and submitting observations overview
  • Entering and submitting observations (multiple computers)
  • Entering and submitting observations (single computer)
• Customizing observation entry forms
• Providing the exact location of an avalanche or snowpack observation

Workflows

• How to create a workflow
• How to delete a workflow
• How to view old instances of workflows
• Workflow modules
  • Context module
  • Webpage module
  • Report module
  • Snowpack and PWL module
  • Hazard assessment - simple module
  • Hazard assessment - detail module

InfoEx reports

• InfoEx report views
• Creating an InfoEx report template
  • Specifying the layout of your report template
  • Specifying the time period for your report template
  • Specifying the spatial extent for your report template
  • Filtering the content of individual tables in your InfoEx report
• Modifying an InfoEx report template
• Deleting an 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