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The SequencING widget is available with SmartServer 2.8 and higher.

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The Sequencing widget is shown in the figure below (the part that appears within the red, dashed box is the Node-RED workspace). Click the Expand button (  ) to view this widget.



  1.  – opens / closes the sidebar with the flow menu and allows you to refresh the flow list
  2. DASHBOARD / FLOW toggle
  3.  – opens the Sequencing widget view in a Node-RED browser

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  • Broker – path to the IAP message broker
  • QoS – Quality of Service. Valid values are: 0, 1, 2
  • Output – valid values are: auto, buffer, utf8, json, base64
  • Name – name of the node
  • Throttle – time interval in seconds specifying the minimum time between updates to the specified output datapoints, with a default of 300 seconds.  
  • Fixed – fixed if checkbox is enabled; otherwise, relative (see Setting Fixed and Relative Nodes for more information).
  • Filters – set one or more filters to the unfiltered datapoint list to refine it to a smaller, more management list as needed. Filters can be set by:  
    • Protocol
    • Device type
    • Datapoint type
    • Block name
    • Block index
    • Datapoint name
    • Device name – available only for the fixed datapoint option
    • Context type –  valid values include campus, building, floor, room, or area (available only for the fixed datapoint option)
    • Context – fully qualified path (available only for the fixed datapoint option)
  • Selected Datapoints – lists the selected datapoint for the IAP Output node; device type datapoints for relative and device datapoints for fixed; appearing in the format: /<hostname>/<protocol>/<device_handle>/<block_name>/<block_index>/<datapoint_name> (shown below).



  • Datapoints – unfiltered list of all the datapoints, sorted alpha-numerically by context/device/datapoint name; device type datapoints for relative and device datapoints for fixed; appearing in the format: /<block_name>/<block_index>/<datapoint_name> (shown below).

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    Note: When a fixed node is selected, the datapoint path is exact, with reference to the device that the datapoint belongs to. When a relative node is selected, the datapoint path is for the device type rather than the actual device.



To set the datapoint priority for the IAP-Output node, which may be needed for BACnet devices, you will need to add the priority parameter to the Node-RED msg.payload that you send to the IAP-Output node. The following figure shows an example of setting the datapoint priority using a Node-RED function node.


Function node code shows setting write priority to 15.

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titleSelecting datapoints

If the fixed option is enabled, a more robust list of datapoints will be displayed on the IAP Input/Output node view since the list is generated for each device. If the relative option is enabled, a narrower list of datapoints will be displayed on the IAP Input/Output node view since the list is generated for each device type.

Click Done to save any IAP Input or Output node settings that you make.

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titleRe-assigning datapoints for imported flows

If you import a flow from another system, or if you import a flow from same system that was restarted and rebuilt with a new database, then you need to re-assign the datapoints on the IAP Input/Output nodes that appear on the flow. 

To use these features, click the Node-RED button ().

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