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Working with Text Lists

Text lists can be used for displaying various texts in the visualization at runtime depending on the value of a numeric variable (HMI tag). This allows you to show a descriptive and more meaningful text in the visualization instead of the numeric variable value. For example, you can use a text list to display the texts "COLD" and "WARM" at runtime if the variable value has a specific value or is within a specific range. The text list is made dynamic by assigning the 'Text list' dynamic with the referenced variable (HMI tag) to an HMI visualization object (for example, a text object).

To use the text lists in localized applications and show them in different languages, the text list entries can be translated into the languages as specified in the 'Extras > Options' dialog. You can also export text lists to a csv file, edit the file with another application, e.g., Excel and then import it.

For details on working with text lists, see the following topics:

Further Info For details how to use the text list entries as options for a drop list object, see the description of the Drop List object.