About lonworks palette components

In Workbench, open the lonworks palette in the Palette side bar to examine various lonworks (Lon) components, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Expanded lonworks palette

As with most other NiagaraAX drivers, you rarely need to work from the palette. Instead, the various Lon manager views simplify component creation, enforcing proper component hierarchy.

One exception is the LinkFilter component, a debug-type object that provides “low-level messaging” related to Lon links via its table-based (default) Link Filter View. Application is intended for troubleshooting only. To use it, you copy the LinkFilter from the lonworks palette into the LonNetwork container (component at device level). The LinkFilter component also has “tuning” properties that affect what displays in the Link Filter View. See LinkFilterView and LinkFilter for related details.

An additional kitLon palette is available, to supplement the lonworks palette. At the time of this document update, kitLon contains five components:

BufferParams

(AX-3.5 or later) A component you can copy into your LocalLonDevice for configuring Neuron chip message buffers on the JACE’s Lonworks interface. For highly knowledgeable users only!
LonTime

Uses “system time”, and can be linked to a Lon device’s nvi that uses SnvtTimeStamp.
LonTodEvent

Can take inputs from BooleanSchedule outputs (Out, Next Value), and be linked to a Lon device’s nvi that uses SnvtTodEvent.
LonPoint

(AX-3.3 or later) Allows you to create a control object that has an nvo with a selectable SNVT type, which can be used to link to an nvi on one or more Lon devices.
LonReplace

(AX-3.4 or later) Allows you to issue a Replace command (action) on a Lon device from a Px page binding to this component placed under the parent Lon device, rather than requiring Workbench and Lon Network Manager view to perform a Replace on a device.

As needed, copy objects from the kitLon palette into the LonNetwork, for use in special applications.

Also, each lon<Vendor> module includes its own palette, which you can open in Workbench’s palette side bar, and manually copy devices into a LonNetwork.

Figure 2. Opening specific lonVendor palette

See To drag and drop devices from a lon<Vendor> palette for a related procedure.