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
• Resetting or changing the password for 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

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

User administration

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

Other operational settings

• Single versus multi-computer setup

Submission from third-party systems

• How to submit observation 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
• How to submit observation to the InfoEx via the CAAML 3.0.3 API

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