Copy Supervisor File step

Among Niagara provisioning job steps, the Copy Supervisor File step copies a single file from the Supervisor to a given location on the target JACE. It is available in the New Job Step menu when adding a step in either the Niagara Network Job Builder or Niagara Network Prototype View, and also in the provisioningNiagara palette (as “CopyFile” step).

When you add this step, the standard File Chooser dialog appears, showing folders and files under the Supervisor’s (currently running) station folder—use it to specify the source file on the Supervisor PC. Figure 39 shows an example of a .gif file being selected.

Figure 39. Select Supervisor source file using File Chooser

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.

Figure 40. Select target Destination

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

Figure 41. Edited target Destination

Here, the destination was changed to specify a “logos” subfolder under images folder, all 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.

Upon execution, file copy steps are combined with other file copy steps, install software steps, or upgrade out-of-date software steps in order to run more efficiently.