Translate alarm texts or object texts

In this example, we translate alarm texts from English to Danish. You can do the same with the object texts located in the Texts table.
 

IMPORTANT: Area names must be identical in the different languages. We recommend that you use the “Western Europe” character set in order to avoid problems with non-western characters.

When you create alarm texts from Definition, the Primary language selected in System Configuration determines which language code is inserted in the database.

 

  1. Open the [MyConfig].mdb database in the configuration root folder.
  2. Open the ATXtext table.
  3. Click images\ico_new.gif at the bottom of the window to insert a new record.
  4. In the ATXno field, type the number of the alarm text you want to translate.
  5. In the Language field, type the appropriate language code.
  6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each alarm text.

You may want to create a query to automate this task. You simply need to replace the language code for all records.

  1. Select the ATXNo column and sort the records in ascending order.
  2. Translate the texts one by one.

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  1. Close the database.

The translated alarm texts will appear when you change the Primary language code in System Configuration.