Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Alarms and Events Quick Start - Manual (Page 171)

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Two additional tabs contain the alarm messages and the tag update rates. These
items are located on their own tabs because they can apply to multiple alarms.
For example, if you had 50 alarms, you could use the same alarm message for 10
of them, but have different messages for the rest. Instead of editing the same alarm
message 10 times, you only need to edit it once. Each alarm message has its own
numeric identifier (in the Message column located in column H in our example),
which links a message to each alarm (level alarms can have a different message
for each level).
The maximum length for an alarm message is 255 characters. Messages that are
longer than 255 characters are truncated when they are imported.
2. At the bottom of the Excel window, click the Messages tab.
3. To add a new language for messages, add a new column and then type the
associated language identifier as the column heading. For example, click cell D1
and then type de-DE. This is the language identifier for German.
For example, the column heading, en-US is the language identifier for English
(United States). For more information, see “Language identifiers for language
switching” on page 217.