Hi bluskis,
If you click
here
You should get an Adobe Acrobat file with all the boxes completed for a "Narrow Route Brief" using the AIS tool; it takes a little while to come up with 44kbps link. If you complete the boxes as shown in this file (you will need to change the date to a relevant future date) then on pressing "SUBMIT" you should be presented with a reasonable length NOTAM for this particular area. It is only an illustration to show how a "Narrow Route Briefing" can be used to provide NOTAMs for local flights in that area but the principles can be applied anywhere else. Some folk just keep to their local flying area and this type of brief can be stored and used again and again. This doesn't help others but I am working on that at the moment.
Let me know if the Adobe Acrobat is the problem or when the information is entered into the AIS web tool.
The AIS tool will provide up-to-date NOTAM , but there is still a way to go before we have access to the information required by the NotamPro/NotamPlot type software products. This is being actively worked on at the moment as has been metioned here and elsewhere. In the meantime as pilots we have to work with what we have got. Please send me a PM if you want further information or help. I am in the process of collecting all the information I have learned into a document which in due course I can make available if it helps.
To answer you direct questions:
A briefing ID is any name you give to that screen of information to enable it to be recalled from the "Briefing Handbook" and used later on; like a file name on a computer file. Just call it "mybrief1" if you like.
As to the amount of boxes, this is due to the filtering that is used in the database. Each set of boxes is a criteria which the tool uses to filter the information so the result is specific to the area of the flight.
Mike Cross has put some useful info :
here