If you are
aan ECMWF Member
andor Co-operating
States or a user with the silverState user, or if you have a basic, bronze, silver, or gold service package, you can
make modifyview your data requirements
yourselfin the Product Requirements Editor (Product Requirements Editor (PREd)).
Users with an ECMWF Member or Co-operating State status, or those on the silver or gold service packages, can also modify their data requirements directly within PREd.
For more information on how to make changes to your requirements, see:
Modifying your data requirements on the PREd
In case you cannot access the application, please contact us by raising a ticket through the Support Portal.
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Users are reminded you cannot add more data than the upper limit of your current volume band allows. If you wish to add more data, please contact us by raising a ticket through the Support Portal. |
Access the Product Requirements Editor
Log in to the Product Requirements Editor (PREd) web interface, using your username and password.
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Destinations and feeds on the PREd
Requirements are grouped structured in a hierarchy of logical containers. At the top level we have is the organisation. Organisation contains 1 , which defines the overall scope of configuration. Each organisation contains one or more destinations, where each representing destination corresponds to a physical host .
Destinations contain feeds. These are containers where you will be able to see the editor and the dissemination requirements.
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If you want to install new data to test, please install your data in a test feed (that starts with T). If you would like to install your requirements in operations right away, you can install them in an operational feed.
You can install your data with the help of so-called snippets (<>), see below for more information about this tool.
By clicking on the bug symbol, you can check if your data configuration validates. The tools below can help you.
If there is an error somewhere, your request will not validate and the bug turns red. If you hover over the 
icon, you will get more information about the error. For some common validation errors, please have a look at the following page: Common validation errors If you cannot figure out what is wrong, please save your configuration as a draft and contact us through the Support Portal.
If everything is alright, the bug turns green. You can then send in a publication request. There is no need to open a ticket as well.
Snippets
that receives the data. Within each destination are feeds, which act as containers for grouping data requirements. The data requirements themselves are defined within the feeds and determine exactly which data is generated and delivered for each feed.
To make sense of the requirements, it is useful to understand the concept of inheritance.
Inheritance
What it does: Displays the data that is being inherited from the preceding dissemination requestWhat it does: Allows users to insert template requirements into their feed, which they can modify and use to build requests from scratch
How to use: hover over the <> iconthe
iconFuture enhancements: selectively paste inherited data into the requirements
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Autocomplete
- What it does: Provides users with a list of parameters that exist in the parameter database
How to use: ctrl+space
Future enhancements:
search for ALL parameters by parameter ID
only display parameters that are valid in dissemination and valid for your current request (this is currently just a dump of all parameters from the parameter database)
Inheritance
What it does: Displays the data that is being inherited from the preceding dissemination request
How to use: hover over the
iconFuture enhancements: selectively paste inherited data into the requirements