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Object: Text List

Symbol: _cds_icon_textlist.png

With this object, you can create, manage, and translate texts. The text list editor provides a table where you can create new texts and add new language versions for each text. You can select a text which has been composed here in a visualization in the Dynamic Texts property. In runtime mode, the visualization displays this text dynamically in the selected language.

For more information, see the following: Text List

When the object is assigned to an alarm group and is located below the Alarm Configuration object, the texts of the alarm group are added to the text list. You can add more texts and edit them.

ID

Unique identifier of the text

Default

Text used in the application (string without single straight quotation marks) which is translated

Example: Information A: %i possibilities

Hint: Double-click in the field to edit the text. Use the Ctrl + Enter shortcut to add a line break.

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 composed in the Default column.

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 in response to user input.

Blank line

Edit the line to add your own text.