Text Components

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Text Components

Text components enable you to create and save predefined texts that can be quickly inserted via right-click for specific tasks (e.g. in various comment fields). See General Information → Using Text Components for instructions how to use text components predefined in this dialog.

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1)Insert: Select Text components from the criteria structure on the left and click on Insert to add a new type; select one of the types and click Insert to add a new area; select one of the areas and click Insert to add a new group; select one of the groups and click Insert to add a new text component under this group.

Delete: Delete selected criterion or criteria structure. It is not possible to delete items that are already in use.

Edit: Edit selected object.

Translate: Translate criteria structure.

Language: Data language selection list.

2)Text components: A hierarchical view of the text components structure.

3)Type, Area and Group: Only the Position and Designation can be edited. The identification Number is assigned automatically.

4)Component: The component ID and position. The ID can be assigned only when creating a new component and cannot be edited later.

5)Text area: Content of the text component. You can type the text in this field when you are in the edit (labelled 1) mode. Basic text formatting options are available.

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Expanded view: Right-click option; displays the text in a resizable window. Using the expanded view when editing enables inserting other existing text components to the opened one.

Translating Text Components:

By clicking the Translatetranslate buttonbutton, you will open a new dialog that can be used to translate the texts that are listed.

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1)Language: The language to be translated.

2)ID: The identification code.

Type, Area, Group, Component: The type, area, group and component names in the system language and their translation to the selected language.

3)Commit the selected text to system language: Right-click option; the selected target language text will be overwritten with the system language text. This option is available only in the system language columns.

Commit all texts to system language: Right-click option; all target language texts will be overwritten with the system language texts.

4)Save: Save the changes.

Close: Close the dialog.