In WinCC, the Text Distributor is a tool used to manage and distribute text elements across different HMI screens and languages. The Text Distributor includes features for text export and text import, which are used to transfer text content between different HMI projects or to external translation tools.
Text Export: The Text Export feature in the Text Distributor allows you to export all or selected text elements from your HMI project to an Excel spreadsheet or a text file. This is useful if you need to send text content for translation or if you want to create a backup of your text content. You can choose which languages to export, and the exported file will include all the text elements in the selected language(s), along with their corresponding tags and descriptions.
Text Import: The Text Import feature in the Text Distributor allows you to import translated or updated text content back into your HMI project. To use this feature, you first export the text content using the Text Export feature, send the exported file to a translator or translation service, and then import the translated content back into WinCC using the Text Import feature. The Text Import feature will automatically update the text elements in your HMI project with the translated content, provided that the tag names and structure remain the same.
Text export and text import in the Text Distributor
WinCC allows the configuration of projects for many languages. The texts are displayed in runtime based on the configured language.
Overview
The project texts created by WinCC are centrally managed in the text library, except for most text from the “Graphics Designer” editor. Referenced texts in the “Text list” and “WinCC AlarmControl” objects are also managed in the text
library.
The Text Distributor is a comfortable tool for exporting and importing all language-dependent text. Here you can export and import targeted languages, individual objects or groups of objects. The exported data is processed with an
external program.
Starting the Text Distributor
You have the following options for starting Text Distributor:
- Double-clicking in WinCC Explorer
- Selecting the menu command “Tools > Text Import & Export…” in the “Graphics Designer” editor
| Note Special characters changed by saving in Excel Be aware of the following when you export texts to TXT files using the “Text Distributor” editor, edit the texts in Excel, save and reimport them: Texts in quotation marks are enclosed in additional quotation marks (” “). You cannot change this characteristic of Microsoft Excel. Texts with “+” or “-” prefix are interpreted as numerical values. An error is written in the cell. Texts with “=” prefix are interpreted as cell references. The error or the text contained in the cell will be written to the cell. To affect the way in which Microsoft Excel handles special characters, format the column or cells as “Text”. Use the “File Conversion Wizard” when opening a TXT file for this purpose. |
Overall, the Text Export and Text Import features in the Text Distributor can help you to streamline the process of managing and translating text content in your HMI project. They provide a simple and efficient way to export and import text content, allowing you to create multilingual HMI projects that are easy to update and maintain.
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