TSTool-QuickStart

• Title: TSTool Quick Start Guide
• Description: This document will help you download, install, and run TSTool software using simple examples, and will point out other resources that are available for more in-depth learning.
• Decision Support - Doc Type: Software Documentation
• Date: 5/21/2014
• DSS Category: DMI Utilities
• Prepared By: Open Water Foundation

TSTool Documentation
Quick Start - 4
Start TSTool

TSTool can be started using the Start… All Programs… CDSS… TSTool-Version menu. At startup
TSTool attempts to make a number of connections to databases and web services and will display a
message similar to the following figure (below left). Because TSTool is distributed for use with the State
of Colorado’s HydroBase database, the following login window will be displayed (below right). The
attempt to find HydroBase databases may result in a warning about the Windows firewall. If HydroBase
is disabled, as described below, this warning should not display again.

Unless you have been provided with a HydroBase DVD or have access to HydroBase on a server, you
will not be able to select a HydroBase database. Consequently, press Cancel in the above-right dialog
and HydroBase features will be disabled.

To disable the HydroBase login from within TSTool, select the Tools…Options menu, select the
Enabled Input Types tab and uncheck the HydroBaseEnabled checkbox. Restarting TSTool will then
not display the Select HydoBase dialog and firewall warnings should also not be displayed.

Example 1 – Data Browsing and Viewing

After TSTool has finished initializing data connections, the upper part of the main window can be used to
browse time series data from various sources. The following figure illustrates the top part of the TSTool
main window after query options have been specified and Get Time Series List has been pressed to
query time series. Specific user actions are explained below.

To query time series, first select a Datastore or Input type. Datastores connect to databases and web
services. Input types generally access files, such as simple time series data formats or model input and
output files. The selection is used only for interactive browsing in the top of the main window. In