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Chapter 2: Creating Projects: 21 topics
  1. 2.1Project Information and Protection
  2. 2.2Global Settings
  3. 2.2.1Languages
  4. 2.2.2Font Templates
  5. 2.2.3Picture Database
  6. 2.2.3.1Importing and Exporting Pictures
  7. 2.2.3.2Picture Groups
  8. 2.2.3.3Picture Database Dialog Box
  9. 2.2.4Sound Database
  10. 2.2.4.1Importing and Exporting Sounds
  11. 2.2.4.2Sound Database Dialog Box
  12. 2.2.5Text Database
  13. 2.3Working with Tags
  14. 2.3.1Types of Tags
  15. 2.3.2Opening and Closing Tags Editor
  16. 2.3.3Creating Tags with Tags Editor
  17. 2.3.3.1Tag Group Explorer
  18. 2.3.3.2Tag List Window
  19. 2.3.3.3Data Type Window
  20. 2.3.4Importing and Exporting Tags/Data Types
  21. 2.3.5Adding/Deleting/Renaming Tag Groups
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Section 2.2.5 · Chapter 2: Creating Projects

Text Database

The Text Database is a dockable window. With the Text Database, you can manage the texts of the multiple languages in your project easily. To open the Text Database, check the Text Database menu item in the Project menu, or double click the Text Database node under the Global node in the Project Manager tool window.

The following is an example of the Text Database that lists the texts in all the languages of the project.

You can click the following icons to bring up the corresponding dialog box to import or export texts.

Icon

Tips

 Description
Import Text Table Imports texts from a text file(.csv file) to the selected table.
Export Text Table Exports texts from the selected table to a text file (.csv file).
Import Panel Application Text Imports texts from the selected table to a panel application in the same project.
Export Panel Application Text Exports texts from a panel application of the project to the selected table.

You can right-click the Text Database to get the pop-up menu with the following menu items:

Menu Item

 Shortcut Description
Cut Ctrl+X Cut the selected text and put it on the Clipboard.
Copy Ctrl+C Copy the selected text and put it on the Clipboard.
Paste Ctrl+V Insert the text on the Clipboard to the current table.
Delete Del Delete the selected text.
<Language name> Check the language name to display the text of objects in the selected language.

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Source.Section 2.2.5 of the PM Designer Software User Manual, Edition 2.0, © Cermate Technologies Inc. (www.cermate.com, service@cermate.com). Reproduced online, with the manual's own figures, by TSL Automation Solutions, authorised Cermate distributor, for users of Cermate HMI panels. PM Designer and PanelMaster are trademarks of Cermate Technologies Inc.

Text and figures are the manufacturer's and may describe features your panel or software version does not have. For a plain-language introduction read the PM Designer guide; for help with a specific panel contact TSL Automation.