The Text Library editor in WinCC is a powerful tool for managing text and language-related content in your HMI project. With this tool, you can create, edit, and organize text elements such as labels, messages, and descriptions used in your HMI screens and dialogs.
Some of the key benefits of using the Text Library editor in WinCC include:
- Centralized management: The Text-Library editor allows you to manage all text elements in one central location, making it easier to update and maintain the text content across your HMI project.
- Multi-language support: With the Text Library editor, you can create and manage text content in multiple languages, allowing you to create HMI projects that can be used in different regions and languages.
- Consistent formatting: The Text-Library editor ensures that text elements are formatted consistently throughout your HMI project, helping to improve readability and usability.
- Efficient translation: The Text Library editor provides tools for translating text content, making it easier to create HMI projects that can be used in different languages.
- Improved productivity: By using the Text Library editor to manage text content, you can save time and improve productivity by reducing the need for manual updates and edits.
Text management with the Text Library editor
All texts for your project are centrally managed in the Text Library except for most text from the Graphics Designer. Each text entry is assigned a unique ID, by which the texts in WinCC are referenced.
Links Between the WinCC Editors and the Text Library
The following WinCC editors store your texts in the Text Library:
- Alarm Logging:
- All user-defined texts, for example, messages, points of error, and standard texts.
- Names for message classes, message status, or message blocks.
- Message text of system messages
- Graphics Designer:
- Only the referenced texts from configured text lists and AlarmControl
- User Administrator:
- Authorizations
- User Archive:
- All configured alias names
- Picture Tree Manager (optional):
- All configured text
Languages in the Text Library
You can create languages with different code pages in the Text Library.
| Note With languages not installed with WinCC, note that the standard texts are entered in the current WinCC GUI language because these other languages are not stored in WinCC. If the project language and the WinCC GUI language are different, you must also translate the standard texts. |
Translating the text
You have the following possibilities for translating texts:
- External translation of exported texts via the Text Library
- External translation of exported texts via the Text Distributor
- Direct input of the translated texts in the respective language columns of the Text Library editor.
- Direct input of the translated texts in the Alarm Logging, User Administrator, and User Archive editors in the properties with translatable texts
Font Administration
You set the font in the Graphics Designer at the individual objects for specific languages. This is particularly important if you are configuring in non-Latin fonts and to create, say, a Cyrillic font. The set font is applied at the referenced locations in WinCC. WinCC V7.2 or higher lets you set a font that contains all necessary characters for all languages.