Shared file strategy

A sharing strategy makes it possible for multiple users of a single Supervisor or engineering workstation to share station files including backups. This type of sharing is different from the shared station sub-folder. This is a folder you create for the purpose of sharing backups and distribution files.

If multiple people log in (differently) to Windows on a Niagara 4 host and use Workbench, each person has their own separate Workbench User Home.

Windows users require permissions to access other users’ files; yet it’s possible that different users of a system (Supervisor or engineering workstation) may need to share items, such as station backups, station copies, saved template files, and so on. Such items may be in multiple Workbench User Home locations in Niagara 4.

Therefore, in some scenarios you may need to establish a sharing strategy, perhaps re-copying such items to a commonly-accessible folder location on the Niagara 4 Windows PC. For example, you might create a shared folder under the Niagara 4 System Home location (the Workbench User Home is not shareable).