Quality color bars (Figure 1) allow you to view the quality of incoming data. Quality is defined as being one of the following: valid, questionable, rejected, missing, no report, or not checked. You must have quality flags associated with the data sets. The following information describes how to configure a time series icon as a quality color bar.

Assigning quality color bars to specific HEC-RTS modules: 

  1. From the CWMS CAVI main window, open a watershed, click the Setup tab, from the Map Window, click the Time Series Icon Tool. 
  2. Right-click a time series icon, from the shortcut menu, click Edit, the Time Series Icon Editor dialog opens.
    Figure 1 Quality Color Bars
  3. Click the Icon Types and Layers tab.
  4. From the Data Set list, select the data set that you want to display a quality color bar in a module.
  5. For each module that you would like to see a quality color bar displayed in the map window, from the Icon Type list for each module, select Quality Color Bar.
  6. Click OK, and the Icon Data Set Editor dialog closes, and the assignment will be saved. Each data set assigned as a quality color bar will be assigned a color. However, these colors can be changed, which is described in the following section.