You typically use in the Bacnet File Export Manager, vs. and/or . When you click , the top pane shows files under the station’s folder, as shown in Figure 81.
As with other manager views featuring online discovery, “Learn Mode” in Bacnet File Export Manager has two panes:
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Top (discovered) Local Files pane—listing all files and subfolders under the station folder.
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Bottom (database) Exported Objects pane—listing files currently exported to BACnet. These are special “file descriptor” components—each essentially a pointer to the exposed station file, with additional slots that determine how BACnet access/writes are handled. See the next section, Add (and Edit) in Bacnet File Export Manager for more details.
When exporting, the manager automatically performs “object ID maintenance” on exported files, ensuring that no duplicate combinations of object type and instance number are created.