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Object: GlobalTextList

Symbol: _visu_icon_global_text_list.png

With the help of the GlobalTextList, texts can be managed and translated which have been composed as fixed text in the visualizations throughout the entire project. The text list editor provides a table where you can manage the localized language versions of each text.

When you compose a new text or edit an existing text in a visualization under the Texts property of an element, a line is automatically added to the text list or the existing text entry is updated. In the GlobalTextlist, only automatically added texts are located under Default. You cannot add new text or edit the default text there. You edit the localization texts into the desired language versions there.

For more information, see the following: Text List and Text List

The following commands are available in order to consolidate the GlobalTextList:

The object is located in the POUs view and exists at most one time.

ID

Unique identifier of the text

Default

Display of the source text (string without single straight quotation marks), created in a visualization.

Example: Information A: %i possibilities

You can add as many language columns to the table as you want. A language column is named with a language code which you already specified when creating the column with the Insert Language command.

Added language

Name of language

This column contains the translations of texts displayed in the Default column. Double-click in a field to edit the localization text. If a translation is not provided below a language column, then the default text is used.

Tip

To name the language, it is best practice to specify the language code according to the ISO-639 language code (lowercase) with the country code.

Example: de, en-US, es, fr, it, ja, pt-BR, tr, zh-CHS

In runtime mode, the visualization displays texts in the language selected in the Visualization Manager. To do this, the translations in the text lists are accessed. If a translation is not provided for a text, then the default text is used.

A visualization can be set up with a language change which is executed both programmatically and above all in response to user input.

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