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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.
Translator Panel

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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
        Qt Linguist
      - 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 Panel

The Translator panel contains the functionality to extract or add the translation files (".ts") within your project. It is opened via the menu Tools > Translator file update.

The panel contains the areas for Projects Level and Translation Operations as well as a dedicated Log Viewer for the related operations.

Figure 1. "Update Translation" panel

Projects level

This section shows the chosen source and target projects. Integrated sub-projects are available and can be selected via the corresponding drop-down menu. The installation can also be used as a source.

Translation Operations

The upper part of this area shows the translation source files (".ts") generated for the projects with the path they are saved under. The display window will be empty when no files have been generated yet.

Translation files are both created and updated via the Update translation files for the selected target project. Click the button to apply the project changes to the translation files. Generated translation files are stored at the selected project level within the msg > <language> folder.

Important: Make sure to always update the translation files to keep the translations up to date.

Note: Creating the translation files from the installation is possible, but will take more time.

The Start Linguist button opens the Qt Linguist window to edit the highlighted file. This button is deactivated if translation files are not available.

More detailed Log messages can be activated with the Activate Log Output check box.

The Create .qm Files button generates the ".qm" files required for WinCC OA from the translatable text in the ".ts" files. These files are stored in the target project in the msg > <language> folder.

Click the Import DP Translations button to import any translations for data points and CNS into the current project.