Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Alarms and Events Quick Start - Manual (Page 149)

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3. In the Export dialog box, click Export.
If your RSLogix 5000 project includes a large number of programs, and you want
to translate alarm messages from only one of them, you can make selections in the
Export dialog box to limit the data that is exported. For details, click Help in the
dialog box.
Step 2: Translate the exported alarm messages
1. In Windows Explorer, locate the file you exported and then double-click it to open
it in Notepad. You can also edit the file using Microsoft Excel.
The last line of text in the file is the alarm definition. The first element from the
left is the instruction type (ALMMSG:) and the language string for the alarm
message (en-us for English in the United States).
The alarm message text appears as the fourth element from the left (“Tank
Temperature is High”).
2. Copy the ALMMSG line and paste it at the end of the file.
3. Change en-us to it-it (for Italian in Italy), and then change the alarm message text
to read, “ La temperatura del serbatoio è alta”.
4. Paste another copy of the ALMMSG line at the end of the file.
When translating to or from Unicode character sets (for example, Asian languages),
you must export and then import the RSLogix 5000 tag database as a .txt file. The
.csv format does not support Unicode character sets. This limitation does not apply
to Tag Alarm and Event Servers.