Schedule Export Manager

The Schedules extension of a NiagaraStation, ObixClient/R2ObixClient, or BacnetDevice has an available Schedule Export Manager view. It allows management of schedule components in the local station made available to that remote device.

This is the view on the niagaraDriver-NiagaraScheduleDeviceExt component. It manages schedules exported from a NiagaraStation.

Like other managers, this is a table-based view. Each row represents a schedule export descriptor. Each descriptor specifies how/when configuration for a local schedule is “pushed” to either:

An imported schedule component in the designated NiagaraStation.
An existing BACnet Schedule object or Calendar object in the designated BacnetDevice, or existing schedule in the designated oBIX server.

Figure 1. Schedule Export Manager under a NiagaraStation

To open this view, expand Config > Drivers > NiagaraNetwork > NiagaraStation, right-click Schedules and click Views > Niagara Schedule Export Manager.

A Schedule Export Manager works differently in NiagaraNetworks from the way it works under a BacnetNetwork or ObixNetwork:

For a NiagaraStation, you do not create export descriptors using this view—there is no Learn Mode, Discover, Add, or New. Instead, each schedule export descriptor is automatically created when the remote station imports a local schedule component.
For a BacnetDevice or ObixClient, you do use Learn Mode to discover BACnet Schedule/Calendar objects or oBIX schedules in the device. Then, you select and add any as schedule export descriptor(s). In each export descriptor, you must specify the station’s local schedule component that exports (writes) its event configuration to that remote schedule object.

After configuration, this view provides a status summary for exporting local schedules. You can also use it to issue manual Export commands to one or more schedules. This causes an export push of schedule configuration into the remote device.

Note: Only schedule export descriptors appear in the Schedule Export Manager view—any other components that may also reside under Schedules do not appear. For example, you do not see imported schedules or the default Retry Trigger component. However, the Nav tree and other views on Schedules provide you access to these items.

Columns


Column	Description
Supervisor Id	Displays the Supervisor ID.
State	Reports the current state of the data transfer as: `Idle`, `Pending` or `In Progress`.
Status	Reports the condition of the export descriptor. Usually `{ok}` unless Enabled is false, in which case it reports `{disabled}`. If there is a problem it reports `{false}` with a reason in the Fault Cause.
Enabled	Indicates if history export is enabled (`true`) or disabled (`false`).
Execution Time	Reports when the export of this history occurs.
Last Attempt	Reports the date and time of the last attempted export.
Last Success	Reports the date and time of the last successful export.
Last Failure	Reports the date and time of the last time the export job failed.
Fault Cause	Reports the reason for a failure.

Buttons

These buttons are available on the NiagaraNetwork’s Niagara Point Manager view.

Edit opens the device’s database record for updating.
Export exports the schedule to specified format (pdf,csv).
TagIt associates metadata, such as location or unique configuration with the object.