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WQX Web Resources and Download
Resources for Learning
WQX Web Tutorials and Example Data Files (ZIP 7.7MB)
The folder has step by step tutorial documents and test templates to provide training to new users. The test files should be submitted only under the WQXTEST Organization ID. After finishing the training, please delete all the files, you generated in WQX Web.
The zip file contains the following files:
- Level1_WQXWeb_Tutorial.pdf - This tutorial introduces users to WQX Web. It walks users through updating details about their Organizations, accessing WQX look up values, and importing projects and monitoring location information.
- The sample data files Level1_WQXWeb_Project.txt and Level1_WQXWeb_MonLocs.txt should be used with this tutorial.
- Level2_WQXWeb_Tutorial.pdf - This tutorial walks through a full results file submission in WQX Web. The tutorial also walks through setting user specific look up values, and dealing with errors in WQX Web.
- The sample data files Level2_WQXWeb_Results.txt and Level2_WQXWeb_Template.xls should be used with this tutorial.
The video tutorial is designed to provide live training to WQX Web tool users. The videos follow the similar sequence as mentioned in tutorial Level1_WQXWeb_Tutorial.pdf and Level2_WQXWeb_Tutorial.pdf. These videos are without any sound and should be referred with the tutorial documents.
Level 1: Introduction- How to open WQX through CDX
- How to update Organization
- How to use Lookup Tables to find Allowable Values
- How to upload the Project file
- How to upload Monitoring Locations file
- How to open and analyze a delimited file on Microsoft Excel
- How to define new Sample Collection Method in Lookup Tables
- How to copy an Import Configuration
- How to import Results
- How to fix Validation Errors
- How to add Translations in Import Configuration
- How to export data to CDX
- How to view Error Reports
- How to set default values in the Import Configuration
- How to fix errors in the original data
- How to re-import the corrected file
Resources for Reference
WQX Web User Guide (PDF 1.4MB)
The WQX Web User Guide provides comprehensive information about the WQX Web application. It is recommended that the User Guide should be referenced before the final use of the WQX Web tool.
WQX Web Template (ZIP 600KB)
The users can use the WQX Web template to assist in formatting the regular results data, such as physical and chemical results that have been sampled and analyzed. The template is made up of two Excel spreadsheet files that are meant to be used together to assist with data tracking and entry.
The first file, "Template_dictionary_WQX_Web.xls", provides a dictionary of the types of data, formats, and associated data rules that should be included within a WQX Web data file. The second file, labeled "Template_WQX_Web.xls" provides columns for entering in data, exporting the data into a text file, and making it ready for import into WQX Web.
The template can be used with the following standard configurations that are shared to all the members of WQXTEST Organization:
- IMPORT PROJECTS
- IMPORT MONITORING LOCATIONS
- IMPORT RESULTS
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