Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Alarms and Events Quick Start - Manual (Page 6)

FactoryTalk Alarms and Events System Configuration Guide
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Appendix A Getting started with language switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
What you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Follow these steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Create device-based alarm messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Translate alarm messages using import and export. . . . . . . . . . . 140
Translate alarm messages in RSLogix 5000 v.16 or earlier . . . . . . 140
Translating alarm messages using RSLogix 5000 v. 17 or later. . . . 144
Create tag-based alarm messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Entering text strings in FactoryTalk View Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Add languages to the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Add buttons to a graphic display to switch languages at run time . . . 153
Enter alarm messages in other languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Create a Display Client configuration file to test alarm messages . . . 166
Test alarm messages at run time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Summary and tips for setting up language switching . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Text that supports language switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Text that does not support language switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Alarm and Event Summary and Alarm and Event Banner . . . . . . . 173
Alarm and Event Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Appendix B System performance and limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Controller specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Tested system limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Tested topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Appendix C Install FactoryTalk Alarms and Events manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Step 1: Confirm that the FactoryTalk Services Platform is installed . . 180
Step 2: Install FactoryTalk Alarms and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180