2.4 Permissions
Granting access to water regulatory agencies and academia to RFC information increases collaboration and more accurate and timely forecasts. After all, the “C” in CHPS stands for “Community”.
Setting up permissions and user groups is optional, but allows cooperating agencies (i.e., WFOs and the Corps of Engineers) to remotely access CHPS, but limits them to certain functions within the system.
Example: Agencies outside the NWS can experiment with what-if scenarios.
The Corp of Engineers could see if increased reservoir release would cause stages to exceed thresholds downstream.
However, the scenarios do not affect official forecasts, and tasks such as approving forecasts remain invisible to the agency.
Coordinate! The CHPS System Manager and management team will probably deal with the request for access, but the CHPS Configuration Focal Point will edit the Permissions.xml and UserGroups.xml files to determine who sees what aspects of the CHPS IFD.
For information on setting permissions, please see the Deltares wiki.
Reference: Permission Configuration (Deltares)