You would import a schedule from a remote device to a Supervisor station. Imported schedules and calendars are standard schedule
components with a BacnetScheduleImportExt. Events in an imported schedule (or calendar) are obtained from that BACnet device, and are read-only. By default, the Schedules device extension also contains a Retry Trigger, for automatic usage as needed. For details refer to the Niagara Drivers Guide.
Prerequisites: You are connected to the controller station that contains the schedule. The bacnet palette is open.
- Drag a BacnetScheduleImportExt from the palette to a node in the Nav tree.
- Double-click the Schedules node.
The Bacnet Schedule Import Manager view opens automatically.
- Click the Discover button.
The system discovers all available schedules in the station.
The default import (read synchronization) from the device’s object is Manual, which means that to refresh the schedule, you must use the Import button in the Bacnet Schedule Import Manager view. Alternatively, if you anticipate ongoing changes to the object’s configuration, you can set the trigger time of the
BacnetScheduleImportExt to be either Daily or Interval.
- Select the schedule in the Discovered pane, do one of the following, and click OK.
- Drag the selected schedule to the Database pane.
- Click the Add button.
- Click the Import button.
The driver uploads the object configuration to the read-only schedule component.
If an imported schedule contains a reference to a calendar object in the device, the driver imports the calendar object as
well as the schedule. This keeps the schedule self-complete.