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Setting Up and Editing the Project
6.7 Editing a Project
Programming with STEP 7
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6.7.1 Checking Projects for Software Packages Used
If a project that you are editing contains objects that were created with another software package,
this software package is required to edit this project.
No matter what programming device you are using to work with multiprojects, projects or libraries,
STEP 7 assists you by showing you what software packages and versions are required to do so.
This information on the software packages required is complete under the following conditions:
• If the project (or all projects in a multiproject) or library was created in STEP 7 as of V5.2.
• If you yourself have checked the project for any software packages used in creating it. To do
this, first go to the SIMATIC Manager and select the project concerned. Then select the menu
command Edit > Object Properties. In the dialog box that is displayed, select the "Required
software packages" tab. The information in this tab will tell you whether you should check the
project for software packages.
6.7.2 Managing Multilingual Texts
STEP 7 offers the possibility of exporting text that has been created in a project in one language,
having it translated, re-importing it, and displaying it in the translated language.
The following text types can be managed in more than one language:
• Titles and comments
- Block titles and block comments
- Network titles and network comments
- Line comments from STL programs
- Comments from symbol tables, variable declaration tables, user-defined data types, and
data blocks
- Comments, state names, and transition names in HiGraph programs
- Extensions of step names and step comments in S7-Graph programs
• Display texts
- Message texts generated by STEP 7, S7-Graph, S7-HiGraph, S7-PDIAG or ProTool
- System text libraries
- User-specific text libraries
- Operator-relevant texts
- User texts