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Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide User Manual

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Viewing alarm details ......................................................................................12– 46
Unsuppressing and suppressing alarms ...........................................................12– 47
Disabling and enabling alarms ........................................................................12– 48

Viewing alarm and event history logs.....................................................................12– 49

The parts of an alarm and event log viewer.....................................................12– 49

Using tags to interact with alarms or obtain their status .........................................12– 51
Using FactoryTalk alarm functions in expressions .................................................12– 53

Retrieving information about the severity of alarms .......................................12– 53
Retrieving information about the number of alarms .......................................12– 54
Specifying the FactoryTalk alarm source in an expression .............................12– 55
What happens if the alarm source becomes unavailable .................................12– 56

Importing and exporting alarms ..............................................................................12– 58

About import and export formats ....................................................................12– 59

13• Setting up language switching ..................................................... 13–1

About language switching.........................................................................................13– 1
Text strings you can view in different languages at run time ...................................13– 2

Text strings you cannot view in different languages .........................................13– 3

Summary of steps for setting up language switching................................................13– 6

About FactoryTalk Security permissions ..........................................................13– 6

Setting up font support for Windows languages .......................................................13– 7

Enabling font support for additional Windows languages ................................13– 7

Selecting a language for a new FactoryTalk View application.................................13– 7

About the current application language.............................................................13– 8

Adding languages to an application ..........................................................................13– 8
Setting up a default application language .................................................................13– 9

Showing undefined text strings in the default language..................................13– 10

Exporting application text strings ...........................................................................13– 11

Troubleshooting export problems....................................................................13– 12
Export file formats...........................................................................................13– 12

Working with text strings exported to an Excel spreadsheet ..................................13– 13

Maintaining the format of the spreadsheet ......................................................13– 14
Modifying or translating text strings ...............................................................13– 15
Working with duplicate text strings.................................................................13– 16

Working with strings exported to a Unicode text file .............................................13– 17

File name and format .......................................................................................13– 17
Opening a Unicode text file in Microsoft Excel..............................................13– 17
Saving a Unicode text file in Microsoft Excel ................................................13– 17
Differences in format for Unicode files saved in Excel ..................................13– 18
Saving a Unicode text file in Notepad.............................................................13– 18
File schema ......................................................................................................13– 18