Add the SubordinateExportTagNetworkExt

Note Before starting station engineering, ensure all JACEs have the exportTags module installed. See Export tag requirements.

Do this using a station connection to each JACE station that is subordinate to the Supervisor.

To add the SubordinateExportTagNetworkExt

In Workbench, open the subordinate (JACE) station.
Open the exportTags palette in your Workbench palette side bar, if not already open.
Expand the subordinate station’s Drivers/NiagaraNetwork container. If a child SubordinateExportTagNetworkExt is already there, go to the next procedure.
From the exportTags palette, drag (or copy and paste) a SubordinateExportTagNetworkExt onto the NiagaraNetwork. In the popup Name dialog, you can rename it—or, use the default name.

Figure 2. Copy SubordinateExportTagNetworkExt into NiagaraNetwork on each JACE station

The extension is under the NiagaraNetwork, and includes two special views. By addition, it automatically creates a “JoinProfile” child under each NiagaraStation component in the subordinate’s NiagaraNetwork.

In the subordinate’s NiagaraNetwork, only the NiagaraStation that represents the Supervisor is of interest when working with export tags. You must enable the JoinProfile under this NiagaraStation, and typically configure other properties of that JoinProfile, in order to use export tags. See the next section, Enable the JoinProfile for the Supervisor NiagaraStation.

Note A NiagaraStation for the Supervisor should already be in the subordinate’s NiagaraNetwork, providing the Supervisor station had a NiagaraStation added (and correctly configured) to connect to the subordinate.In case this NiagaraStation shows a status of disabled:

Expand its Client Connection child and make sure that the (Fox) Port, Username, and Password are correct for station connection back to the Supervisor.
Enable the parent NiagaraStation (from its property sheet), and issue a right-click Ping action. Verify that its status is ok.

In case the JACE is not currently installed on the LAN with the Supervisor, you can still work with export tags, but you will not be able to “Join”, much less ping, the Supervisor. However, in this case you may wish to configure the “Default” connection properties under the JoinProfile of the Supervisor NiagaraStation in the subordinate. For related details, see Editing the Join Profile.