Adding a template

Component and device templates are created from components in an existing station. One or more templates can be distributed to multiple stations using the Deploy Template provisioning step. Bulk template provisioning involves the following primary steps.

A template created from a station and exported to an Excel file exists. The Excel file contains at least one entry. The template and Excel files were copied to the Supervisor

For details on creating and editing templates, refer to the “Template bulk deployment” topic in the Niagara Templates Guide.

  1. If it does not already exist, generate the bulk deployment Excel file for one or more templates to be provisioned.
  2. Edit the Excel file to include template instances to be deployed.
  3. Copy the Excel and template files to the provisioning Supervisor.
  4. Expand Config > Drivers > NiagaraNetwork, double-click ProvisioningNwExt, in the top pane, Provisioning steps to run, click (Add), select Install Application Template and click OK.
    This opens an Application Template Configuration file chooser.
  5. Navigate to the Supervisor’s ^templateCache folder and select the Excel file to use for this step.
    The system adds this step to the job sequence and shows the file path ORD to use.

If more than one Excel file/template file combination is needed to complete an entire application installation, you may export multiple templates to a single Excel file, where each template configuration occupies a separate Excel worksheet tab. Each tab in the Excel workbook configures a separate template instance.

You may include multiple Deploy Template steps in a single provisioning job.