Updates (changes/additions) to this NiagaraAX Export Tags document are listed below.
Updated: May 30, 2013
Document updates to cover exportTag changes starting in the “update 1” release of AX-3.7, denoted in this document as “AX-3.7u1”. The following changes were made:
Added the preceding section on “Whats new in the AX-3.7u1 exportTags module”.
Added notes explaining the need for Default Subordinate User/Password information in several places throughout the document, including information on required permissions.
Added notes clarifying ComponentTag usage in several places throughout the document.
Added the new JoinProfile property to the last paragraph under Join process from subordinate, a new paragraph and procedure for Adding default subordinate user credentials to a pre-engineered NiagaraStation, and added the new property under the Join Profile Manager.
Updated: August 26, 2012
Document is now a “revision-split” document that applies only to a AX-3.7 and later Supervisor and JACE controllers, with most references to using export tags in AX-3.5 and AX-3.6 removed. Screen captures were updated to show the default AX-3.7 “Lucid” theme in Workbench.
Other areas of document change include the following:
Throughout the document changes were made to describe (or “Note”) the configuration possibility of hosts installed using certificate-based SSL connectivity, available starting in AX-3.7. This includes Fox SSL (foxs) for station-to-station communications, used in export tag “Joins”. Related changed sections include the Export Tags Quick Start subsections Enable the JoinProfile for the Supervisor NiagaraStation and related new properties described in the section Editing the Join Profile.
This document revision now emphasizes the editing of the station “profile.bog” file in a JACE’s file space (formerly referred to as a “station bog” file), which determines more that just the folder structure under the NiagaraStation (that represents the JACE) in the Supervisor station. Properties in the profile.bog’s “niagaraStation”, and in its device extensions, are important too. Related document changes are in the Export Tags Quick Start subsections Verify and edit the station profile.bog file, with more details in station bog file, including new subsections Device extension properties importance in profile.bog file and Provisioning slot additions in a profile.bog file.
The reworked “short slot name” method used in Niagara “virtual components” (starting in AX-3.7) was mentioned in descriptions of results from using PxViewTags, which automatically create “Niagara virtuals” on the Supervisor station, as needed. Changed document sections include PxViewTags and subsections About the Supervisor SubstitutePxView and About ord substitution overrides.
Updated: April 5, 2011
Document updates to cover export tag-related changes made in NiagaraAX-3.6 (AX-3.6). Many sections in the document changed, mostly related to the AX-3.6 and later enhancement to the “Station Slot Path” property in several types of export tags. The main areas of change in this document include new sections Station Slot Path considerations and Actions on the SubordinateExportTagNetworkExt. Various procedures in the Add export tags sections were also modified to reflect differences when working in a AX-3.6 or later system vs. a AX-3.5 system.
Updated: February 3, 2010
Minor corrections from a late SME review. One answer in the Export tag FAQs was modified—export tags are currently not a licensed feature; however, use as a “Supervisor” in a JACE station is not recommended. Other changes were made in the About the Join process section, in diagrams for a “Supervisor Join” (Figure 9) and a “Subordinate Join” (Figure 10).
Published: January 29, 2010
Initial document.