Deploying a template via drag-and-drop
This procedure demonstrates the deployment steps using a template for a Supply Air Reset component.
- Right-click on the device and open the wire sheet view where you want to deploy the template.
- In the Template sidebar, click on the template and drag it to the wire sheet view.
The template Name window appears. - Change the template name as needed and click OK.NOTE: Clicking Cancel on any of these windows aborts the deployment process and removes the installed devices. It does not remove any installed Px or image files.
The Please Wait window appears. It indicates which files are being transferred to the target station. Additionally, the window updates with information as it does NEQL queries for the inputs, outputs, and relations.
NOTE: If the template file contains aPasswordwith the installed value BPassword.DEFAULT, a window displays alerting the user of this fact. The TemplateService and Template Manager view can be used to later locate the password and assign a value.The Configuration Properties window appears.
- If you wish, edit the configuration properties and click OK.NOTE: If deploying a template to an offline station, the following Info window appears. At this point deployment is finished. Once the station is running, you can access the TemplateService and Template Manager view to resolve the unbound inputs, outputs, and relations.
For each template input defined with bindHints that return one or more results, the Select Link Input Source window appears. - In the Select Link Input Source window, approve or configure input sources (repeat as needed to approve or configure all template input links). A template input must be linked from only one source. Also, input source points can be located anywhere in the station.
- If an input resolves to a single source it is automatically selected for you, click OK to accept the source.
- If the input resolves to multiple possible sources, you must select one by clicking the Select cell of the desired input source, and click OK.
- If a userTip is defined, it displays at the top of the window. For example, in the above image the userTip, “Select desired Outside Air Temperature source”, is visible.
- If the list of sources is long, you can sort the list by clicking on theSource column heading. You can also filter the list by typing in the search text field.
- If no sources are detected for an input, a popup appears indicating that fact. Click OK to proceed.
NOTE: In this situation, you may need to create an input source point(s) and tag it appropriately so that the input link resolves correctly. You can either cancel deployment in order to create and tag any undetected input source points and then redeploy the template, or just proceed and after deployment create and tag any missing input sources and then resolve those inputs by accessing the Template Service.
For each template output defined with bindHints that return one or more results, the Select Output Link Target(s) Slot window appears.
- In the Select Output Link Target(s) Slot window, click the TargetSlotSelect drop-down or double-click the TargetSlot cell, click to select a slot and then click OK (repeat as needed to configure all output links).
If multiple points are detected, each point will be listed and the target slot selection initialized based on the targetSlotHint tag value.If no targetSlotHint inputs are linkable, the
(do not link) option will be selected. The target slot choices will be limited to the target point's linkable input slots,
i.e. if the in10 input is already linked it will not appear in the choice list. If you do not wish to link to a matching point select the
option.
NOTE: A template output can be linked to more than one target.If the template is set up with one or more component relations, the Select Related Component window appears.
- In the Select Related Component window, approve or configure component relations (repeat as needed to approve or configure all template component relations).
- A Configuration Properties window appears. Edit the configuration properties as desired.
- Once all inputs and outputs have been processed, the Template IO Binding Results window appears indicating the linked inputs, outputs, and added relations. Click OK.
