Import text strings

To import text strings from a file into an application, the file must be saved in Unicode text or Microsoft
Excel
 format. Text strings exported from a
FactoryTalk View
 application are saved in one of these two formats, depending on what was specified when the export took place.
TIP:
Do not attempt to import a multi-line text string for a property that supports only a single line string, such as the
TooltipText
 property. If you attempt to do this, the new line or carriage return character (
\n)
 will be displayed as unreadable characters.
If you are using
FactoryTalk Security
 to secure applications at design time, to import strings to local station, network station or network distributed applications, you must have Common/Read and Common/Write security permissions for the application or area the operation is being carried out on.
To import text strings into an application from a Unicode text or Excel file:
  1. Make sure that the HMI project that you are going to import text to is not being edited or modified.
    • If components are being edited remotely and are saved after you have imported text for them, the imported text will be overwritten.
    • If a component is being edited locally and has not been saved, you will be prompted to save it. If you click Yes, the edits will be saved, the component closed, and then the import will continue. If you click No, the edits will not be saved, but the component will be closed and the import will continue.
    • If a component is being edited remotely, you will not be prompted to save it and the import will be made to the most recently saved version of the component.
  2. Create a backup of the text currently in the application by exporting it.
    This allows you to restore the original text to the application if an error occurs while importing, or if you cancel the import before it is complete. If you cancel the import while it is in progress, any text strings changed prior to canceling are not restored to their original values. To restore text strings as they were originally in the application, import the text from the backup file.
  3. Click
    Tools
     >
    Languages
    .
  4. If you are importing Unicode text files, in the
    Language Configuration
     dialog box select the language of the strings that are being imported, and then click
    Import
    .
    If you are importing an Excel spreadsheet, simply click
    Import
    .
    • An import from Excel will import every row in the spreadsheet until it reaches a blank row, and every column until it reaches a blank column. Anything after that will not be imported.
  5. In the
    Import Operation
     dialog box, select whether to import the strings from a Unicode file or an
    Excel
     spreadsheet.
  6. If you are importing Unicode strings for multiple HMI servers in a network distributed application, in the
    Select Files
     window click
    Browse (...)
    , select the files to be imported into the application, then click
    Finish
    .
    If you are importing an Excel file, in the
    Select File
     window, click the
    browse button (...)
    , select the file to be imported into the application, and then click
    Finish
    .
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