Configure Languages for Industrial Graphics Applications
- Last UpdatedSep 29, 2025
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Note: AVEVA Industrial Graphics is now deprecated within Plant SCADA and future releases. It will no longer be supported or maintained in future versions, monthly updates or security updates. AVEVA recommends customers cease using AVEVA Industrial Graphics within Plant SCADA runtime systems and decommission any Plant SCADA Industrial Graphics web servers from production and engineering systems. See AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics for more information.
AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics applications can be configured to support multiple languages. You can apply a different set of strings to a graphics object for each language that is configured in Plant SCADA Studio. The content that gets displayed is then determined by the language that is selected in the Industrial Graphics Web Client.
Note: If you are looking for information on language switching for a standard Plant SCADA project, see Configure Languages for a Standard Project.
Perform the following steps to enable language switching for an Industrial Graphics application.
To configure the list of languages supported by an Industrial Graphics application, you need to use Plant SCADA Studio's Setup activity.
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In the Languages view, select Industrial Graphics from the menu below the command bar.
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On the Languages Configuration dialog, select Edit. The Configure Languages dialog will appear.
By default, the current Windows® locale setting is used to set the default language and font.
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To add an additional language, click the Add button.
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Use the Add Language dialog to select a language By Name or By Locale ID.
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Specify a Font for the language.
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Click OK.
The language you selected will be now appear in the Configure Languages dialog.
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If required, use the Set Default button to change the language that will be used by default in the Industrial Graphics Editor.
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Click OK to update the list of supported languages.
If an instance of the Industrial Graphics Editor is currently open, any changes you make to the language settings will not be applied until after the editor has been restarted.
Note: If you delete a language, the translations for a graphic will still be available until you specifically remove them in the Industrial Graphics Editor. See the topic Removing a Language from a Graphic in the Creating Industrial Graphics section of the help.
You can specify the language that is currently applied to the Industrial Graphics Editor using the Languages panel.
Select the required language from the drop-down menu to the right of the field. Any changes you make to the properties for a selected object will now be associated with this language.
You can then select an object and make any required changes to the strings you would like to update for the selected language.
You will need to repeat these steps for each language you would like to support.
Select a language in the Industrial Graphics Web Client
By default, your project will load using the language set as default in the browser. If the default language of the browser is not supported by your project and/or the Web Client, the default language configured in your project will be used.
To change the current language:
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Go to the title bar and click
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Click the Language icon to select a language.
When you change the language, the application in the browser will be restarted.
Note: If you use an included project that has its own translations for graphic objects, those translation will be retained. However, their use will be limited by the languages that are configured in the active project. For more information, see Working with Industrial Graphics Languages in Included Projects.