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Configuring Messages
16.9 Configuring the 'Reporting of System Errors'
Programming with STEP 7
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16.9.9 Generating Foreign-Language Message Texts in 'Report System Error'
You can display the messages configured in 'Report System Error' in the languages that you
installed when you installed STEP 7.
To do so, proceed as follows:
1. In the SIMATIC Manager, select the Options > Language for Display Devices... menu
command. In the dialog box that is then displayed, add the desired language to your project.
2. Confirm your settings with "OK".
3. In HW Config, select the Options > Report System Error... menu command. In the dialog box
that is then displayed, click the "Generate" button.
Result: The message texts are generated for all the languages that you installed, but they are
only displayed in the language that you have set as the default in the "Add/Delete Language,
Set Default Language" dialog box by clicking the "Set as Default" button.
Example
You have installed STEP 7 in German, English and French, and these languages are defined in
your project. Now you generate the message texts as described above. To display the messages
texts in a given language, set this language as the default in the "Add/Delete Language, Set
Default Language" dialog box.
Notes
• If you use messages and error texts in more than one language, check the language for display
devices in the "Add/Delete Languages, Set Standard Language" dialog and change it if necessary.
• Texts in a language not supplied with STEP 7 are displayed in the language defined as default.
You can export these texts, translate them into the required language and the import them into
STEP 7 again.
• If you change the language settings while editing 'Report System Error", the block must be
regenerated so that the messages can be displayed in the required language.