Among Niagara provisioning job steps, the Copy Local File step copies a single file from your (local) Workbench PC to a given location on the target JACE. It is available when adding a step in the Niagara Network Job Builder (ProvisioningNwExt view) only. It is also available in the provisioningNiagara palette (as “CopyFile”), but only if copied in the Niagara Network Job Builder view (and then selected instead of the “Copy Supervisor File” step in an intermediate popup dialog).

When you select this step, the standard File Chooser dialog appears, showing all drives mapped on your local PC—use it to navigate to the source file to copy. Figure 39 shows an example of an .lnml file being selected.

After selecting a local source file, a Destination dialog prompts you for the target destination to copy this file to, as shown in Figure 40.

Note that this destination folder applies to all stations in the job. You may need to edit destination, as shown done in Figure 41.

Here, the destination was changed to specify an “lnml” folder under the “station root” absolute (^). If a destination folder does not already exist on the target host, it is created.

The destination string must always begin with the character for either the system-home relative (!) or the station-home relative (^). No means is provided to modify any files outside of the Niagara release directory on any target JACE hosts.

When the job is scheduled or run, unless the file being copied is local to the Supervisor (i.e. you are using Workbench on the Supervisor), a temporary copy of the file is made there. This temporary file is cleaned up once the job completes.

Upon execution, file copy steps are combined with other file copy steps, install software steps, or upgrade out-of-date software steps in order to run more efficiently.