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WinCC OA is designed to provide both Native Language Support and Multi Language Support.
WinCC OA settings
Settings for the WinCC OA user interface.

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Concepts
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Topics, you need to know, before using WinCC OA.
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Engineering
Powerful tools for easy or complex engineering tasks.
- Project Administration
  The chapter contains a description of the process monitor as well as the project administration.
- Graphics Editor (GEDI)
  Used for creating and editing panels, provides tools for creating and configuring graphic objects.
- System Management
  The System Management is the central administrative unit for WinCC OA Systems.
- Wizard Framework
  Used for easy creation of wizards in a uniform layout style. The key elements "Navigation Bar" and "Bottom Bar" can be customized to fit the needs of the custom wizard.
- XML Panel Format
  The XML (Extensible Markup Language) panel format allows creating WinCC OA panels.
- Simple Symbols, basics
  The "Simple Symbols" functionality is used to simply assign corresponding symbols to data point types and increase the working comfort when working with different symbols.
- ScriptWizard
  Simple wizard for creating graphical user interfaces for users without prior programming knowledge.
- Panel topology/Group alert facility
  Tree structure for process panels with integrated group alert system
- Object-Oriented Panel References
  Reusable objects built with the GEDI tools. Insert them within an existing panel to provide a graphical element.
- Multilingual Projects
  WinCC OA is designed to provide both Native Language Support and Multi Language Support.
  - Creating Multilingual Projects
    The procedures for creating a multilingual project.
  - File search and language-fallback-mechanism
    Searching for files in the language dependent subdirectories and language-fallback-mechanism, just in case that a file is not found in the active language.
  - Important notes
    Basic issues in multilingual projects
  - Language editor (Lang Editor)
    In multilingual projects, opening the Lang editor in different panels.
  - The translation tools
    The translation tools to translate existing panels.
  - Control functions
    Data types and control functions supporting the multilingual capability
  - Encoding and Fonts in WinCC OA
    Possible font coding in WinCC OA
  - WinCC OA settings
    Settings for the WinCC OA user interface.
  - Online language switching
- Translator
  The WinCC OA Translator functionality supports you in creating and maintaining multilingual projects. It offers a convenient interface for translation of reusable terms.
- Layout management
  Layouts change the size and position of objects according to parameters previously defined in the GEDI.
- Generic Dialog Framework
  The Generic Dialog Framework is an easy way to generate your own dialogs by adjusting a set of prefabricated panels.
- Simple Configuration
  Simple configuration windows and panels support you in combining events (such as a mouse click) with different actions such as setting data point values, showing panels or changing attributes.
Data Management
Classify, structure and archive your data.
Business Logic / Control
Endless possibilities in data processing for your projects.
Data Visualization
User interfaces, Trends and Reports for every purpose and device.
Southbound Interfaces
The process connection to the actual machines/sensors.
Northbound Interfaces
Your portal to the cloud or supervising systems.
Web Connectivity / Network Interfaces
Data exchange, APIs and web technologies
User Management
All about authorization, authentication and login-customization.
Availability
How to get your system uptime to the maximum.
Reporting
Create state of the art project reports without limits.
Addons
Useful tools and enhancements for special demands.
Reference Tables
Detailed and extensive content for special project adaptation.
Videos & Tutorials
Explore the capabilities of WinCC OA with our carefully selected collection of video tutorials and guides.
WinCC OA Documentation
Basic information about terms and functions within the documentation.
Disclaimer
A brief clarification of liability exclusions or legal notices.

WinCC OA settings

Settings for the WinCC OA user interface.

Font selection in GEDI

The following actions must be executed in GEDI in order to display fonts correctly in VISION:

Example

Open the "Select Font" window by clicking on the button of the property "Font" in the property sheet of the object.
Select your individual font for the text view.

Writing System

Selection of worldwide used fonts. After selecting a writing system all available fonts of this writing systems are listed in the "Fonts" box.

The writing system is not part of the font name. That means that after saving a font configuration, the "Writing System" will be reset to "All". It is for filtering of fonts only.

Which Windows settings are required for displaying in an individual writing system, is described in the chapter System settings for local texts.

Font

Displaying type of the texts/symbols. Is filtered by the selected writing system.

Font Style

Style of the font: Normal, Italic, Bold or Bold Italic.

Size

Size of the text/symbol (1-512).

Effects

Effect for the displaying of the font: Strikeout or Underline.

Sample

Preview with a sample text.

Font in a multilingual project

In order that the same font is used for every project language, by default the GEDI menu option "Format -> Use One Font For All Languages" is enabled. For further information see The Format menu.

If this option is disabled, for every language this font is used which was selected for every particular language in the font selector ("Format -> Font").

To apply the font of an explicit language to all other languages, e.g. for a frame title, without the need to disable the option above, the context menu option "Apply To All Languages" of the "Font" attribute can be used. By doing so, this language must be selected in the GEDI online language switching, whose font should be applied to the other languages.

Translating panels

The WinCC OA Translator tool can be used to translate panels, see Translator, basics.

Printing

No special settings are required for printing foreign-language panels (for example, Russian, Chinese).