Language switching
Language switching allows you to deploy an application in different languages. At design time, you can design an application with user-defined text strings in up to 40 languages. At run time, you can switch between up to 20 application languages dynamically using a language switch button for each language.
The user-defined text strings that support language switching are those that an operator sees in an application at run time, including:
- Text objects created in graphic displays and global object displays
- Graphic and global object display titles specified in the Display Settings dialog box
- Labels and captions on graphic displays, including alarm trigger labels
- Embedded time and date and numeric variables
- Alarm, local, and information messages
- Captions and shorter messages in the dialog boxes of User Management buttons and the Electronic Signature dialog box
- Text strings defined in the extended properties of controller tags
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Make sure that you define the controller default language when multi-language is enabled.
- If the requested language is not available in the controller, the application shows the default language defined and enabled in the HMI.
- If the HMI default language is not defined in the controller, the application uses the controller default language or the single language that does not have an ID.
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See also
Prepare an application for language switching
Switch application languages at design time
Keywords: language switching