Document change log

Updates to this document are listed below.

January 21, 2025

  • Edited "net-HttpProxyServer" topic in "Components in net module" chapter to include the Digest authentication scheme option.

  • Updated "New Station Wizard", "Creating a new station" topics, and "User (baja-User) component topic to include encrypted hashes passwords (as of Niagara 4.15).

  • Added "Fox Options" section to the "Options" topic to include the Fox Over WebSocket feature (as of Niagara 4.15).

  • Updated "User (baja-User)" component to include the "Fault Cause" property and "Absolute Logoff Enabled" (as of Niagara 4.15).

  • Updated "UserService (baja-UserService)" to include "Absolute Logoff Enabled" and "Default Absolute Logoff Period (as of Niagara 4.15).

  • Updated "New Station Wizard" to include the station encryption options (as of Niagara 4.15).

  • Updated "Creating a new station" to include station encryption options (as of Niagara 4.15).

  • Updated "wbutil - User Manager" plugin to include the fault badge symbol on the user icon (Niagara 4.15).

September 6, 2024

  • Added “Setup tab” section to “History Chart view” in the “Getting to know Workbench” chapter.

  • Updated "Change of State Count” and “Elapsed Active Time” property descriptions in the “control-DiscreteTotalizerExt” component topic of the “Components in control module” chapter (as of Niagara 4.14).

  • Updated "web-WebService" component to include "Main Https Cert" property.

  • Added "Components in app module" and "Components in box module" sections to "Components guides" chapter.

  • Added store size limit information to “Configuring the web browser allowlist (system.properties)” topic.

November 28, 2023

  • Added new property “SAML Authentication Scheme Rank” and “SAML Authentication Scheme Rank –With Tls and Without Tls” in the “Digest Authentication Scheme” topic to the “Components guides” chapter.

July 7, 2023

  • Clarified instructions for adding custom fonts in the “Embedded Device Font Tool” topic.

  • Updated Mode property description in “Category (baja-Category)” component reference topic.

  • Edited “Palette” glossary term.

  • Added “Maximum Length” property (as of Niagara 4.13) to “Password Strength” container in “bajaGlobalPasswordConfiguration” component reference topic.

  • Added Https Cert (Alias, Password) and Server Certificate Health (Requested Cert, Returned Cert, Cert Status) properties to the WebService (“web-WebService) component” reference topic.

  • Added references toJACE-9000 where appropriate.

November 15, 2022

  • Added “Configuring the display of the Source Ord.”

  • Added a glossary entry: handle Ord.

  • Cleaned up links following migration from content management system.

October 6, 2022

  • Added information about the new functionality of the “Refresh” menu item in the “About the File menu” topic.

  • Added Group Nav Tree Host topic to “Getting to know Workbench” chapter.

August 25, 2022

Added new information or new topics about the following:

  • Configuring settings for and viewing local Workbench logs.

  • How to modify default actions.

  • HTML5 Bql Query Builder view

Added new topics to the “Plugins” chapter

  • WebEditors-Multisheet

  • Relation Sheet

March 8, 2022

  • Added “Viewing the station log” topic to the “Key tasks” chapter.

  • Added section “Using Web Wire Sheet” to “Wire Sheet object management” chapter.

  • Added component “Prototype Merge Policy (baja-UserPrototypeMergePolicy)”.

  • Added property description to WebService component Https Min Protocol property regarding addition of TLSv1.3 option.

  • Added the following topics:

    • “Backing up a station using Workbench”

    • “Restoring a controller station from a distribution file using Workbench”

    • “Adding a new log category”

    • “Changing the severity level of an existing log category”

    • “Removing an existing log category”

    • “Changing the name of a point”

    • “Modifying an Action Name”

    • “Configuring the web browser whitelist

    • “Creating additional windows”

    • “Opening a new tab”

    • “Changing the time format using the Lexicon”

    • “Changing the time format using Facets”

  • Reorganized the document, combined topics, added missing topics, edited and rewrote multiple topics.

June 2, 2021

  • Added wiresheet-WebWiresheet plugin topic.

  • Added the Same Site property in the web-WebService component topic.

December 2, 2020

Updated document to Niagara 4.10 which includes the following changes:

  • Added baja-SMANotificationSettings component topic.

  • Added content on the Workbench Certificate Signer Multiple Selection Tool, available in Niagara 4.10 and later.

May 12, 2020

Updated document to Niagara 4.9 which includes the following changes:

  • Added a new component Http Header Providers in web-WebService topic.

  • Added new topics for workbench-WebBrowser and jxBrowser-JxWebBrowserImpl to support online help.

  • Updated the “Px Editor” Workbench Options topic with added information on the “Neqlize Mode” and related properties.

  • Minor changes throughout to update for Niagara 4.9. Replaced references to “applet” and “WebStart” with “Web Launcher”.

  • Added a new topic for workbench-WebBrowserView plugin.

August 12, 2019

Updated document to Niagara 4.8 which includes the following changes:

  • Edited the procedure, “Configuring the web browser whitelist” to reflect latest changes in functionality.

  • In the section, “Customizing the Workbench environment”, added a procedure for “Configuring the web browser whitelist”.

  • Edited the “wbutil-PermissionsBrowser” plugin topic, to add information on improvements to the Permissions Browser view

  • In the section on “Workbench Tools,” added topics on the “Jar Signer” and “Module Info” tools.

October 8, 2018

  • In the topic, "About history extensions", added a new functionality for history extensions.

April 12, 2018

  • In the topic, “About the New Station Wizard”, added a note on a change in the station templates for the New Station Wizard in Niagara 4.6 and later. Also updated the Chart commands topic with information on the Ord Type and Base Ord properties.

March 5, 2018

  • Added the component topic, “baja-UserPrototype”.

January 25, 2018

  • Clarified the description of the Auto Logoff parameters in several topics.

December 11, 2017

  • Added SMA Notification Settings configurable properties to baja-UserService component topic.

November 13, 2017

  • Update related to FIPS support available in Niagara 4.6 and later. Under the topic, “Types of Workbench Options”, replaced image and added the FIPS Options topic.

  • In the Glossary, removed references to “tagged categories” from the “category” definition.

October 20, 2017:

  • In the section on “Customizing the Workbench environment” in the “Platform Connections options” topic, added information about Workbench enforcing the requirement to change platform defaults and the Change Platform Defaults Wizard.

October 12, 2017

Updates related to the Niagara 4.4 release include the following changes:

  • In the section on “Customizing the Workbench environment”, added content on new types of Workbench options: added “Platform Connections Options” and “Code Signing Options,” renamed "Signing code in batch offline bogs" to read Batch signing code in offline bogs, replaced “Signing the code-signing certificate” with Signing a certificate

  • In the section on “Workbench Tools,” added a topic on the “Workbench Library Service”.

  • In the component topic, baja-UserService, added the Default Auto Logoff property description; and in “User Prototypes” added Auto Logoff property descriptions

  • Added the component topic, “baja-SSOConfiguration” including property descriptions

  • Added the component topics, “saml-SAMLAuthenticationScheme” and “saml-SAMLAttributeMapper” property descriptions

  • In the component topic, “web-WebService,” added the Cache Config property description

October 2, 2017:

  • Code signing was implemented originally in Niagara 4.2 and is documented for the first time in Niagara 4.4. In the section, “Types of Workbench Options”, see “Signing program objects” and following topics.

August 9, 2017:

  • In the topic baja-UserService, added the description about “Effect of property changes on user session”

July 11, 2017

  • Added property descriptions in baja-UserService component topic.

June 13, 2017

  • Added six baja-Authentication component topics to support context-sensitive help.

March 30, 2017

  • Minor corrections throughout.

February 28, 2017

  • In the chapter, “About Workbench Tools,” updated the NDIO to NRIO Conversion Tool description with functionality changes for Niagara 4.3/AX-3.8U3. Also updated the procedure, “Converting NDIO modules to NRIO.”

December 12, 2016

  • In the chapter, “About Workbench Tools”, added topics on the Embedded Device Font Tool, and Kerberos Configuration Tool.

  • In the chapter, “About Workbench Tools”, updated the “New Station wizard” topic to include information on the NewSupervisorStationLinux template added in Niagara 4.2. Also, added a procedure on “Creating a new Linux Supervisor Station”.

  • Removed several topics referencing the timesync module, its components and plugin view.

August 3, 2016

  • In the Tools chapter, described new functionality in the NDIO to NRIO Conversion Tool.

December 8, 2015

  • Corrections to the section on the NDIO to NRIO Conversion Tool.

November 9, 2015

  • Niagara 4.1 release version.

  • Updated the chapter on Workbench Tools to include information on the NDIO to NRIO Conversion Tool.

  • Added Applet Module Caching Type property description in Components chapter, web-WebServces component.

August 31, 2015

  • Initial release document.