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Multilingual Projects
WinCC OA is designed to provide both Native Language Support and Multi Language Support.
The translation tools
The translation tools to translate existing panels.
Translator
The WinCC OA Translator functionality supports you in creating and maintaining multilingual projects. It offers a convenient interface for translation of reusable terms.

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Engineering
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- 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.
    - Translator
      The WinCC OA Translator functionality supports you in creating and maintaining multilingual projects. It offers a convenient interface for translation of reusable terms.
      - Translator Details
        A detailed overview of functions related to translation.
      - Translator Panel
      - Translator - Example panel translation
        This example shows how to add translations to a panel using the translator functionality.
    - Commandline Translation Tools
  - 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.

Translator

The WinCC OA Translator functionality supports you in creating and maintaining multilingual projects. It offers a convenient interface for translation of reusable terms.

The translator offers you many advantages, for example when creating a new project. You can create and configure a project in English or another desired language. With the aid of the translator, you then translate the created panels, translatable elements of data points and CNS nodes of your whole project quickly and easily into German or any other desired language.

The translator offers greater flexibility as the translations are retrieved at runtime instead of being stored in the panel itself.

Translation files are created and updated with the Translator Panel.

Information on specific details can be found in Translator Details.

A short example can be found in Translator - Example panel translation.

The Translator uses the Qt Linguist function, the dedicated documentation of which can be found here.

Installation

The Translator functionality is part of the WinCC OA installation does not require any additional setup.