# Alarm Text Translation to French

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-text-translation-to-french/45198>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, ignition79\
**Created:** [April 2, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-text-translation-to-french/45198 "2021-04-02T05:16:13Z")\
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Dear Experts,  
I have created project in English Language & I want to translate it in French.  
I created data type of 4 boolean tag to generate alarms. Given data type properties as bellow

NAME Data Type VALUE  
1\_Station String Vibration Table  
2\_Component String Stack-1 Holding Cylinder  
3\_Home String i\_Down

Given alarms properties/Display Path {1\_Station} {2\_Component} {TagName} ({3\_Home}).  
Alarms/Faults are generated according to name given to 1\_station, 2\_Components, tag name & 3\_Home.

I want to translate text contain in Data Type value according to language selection or any other method. So if French language is selected the alarm will generate in French.

Thanks…

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-text-translation-to-french/45198/2 "2021-04-02T06:14:03Z")

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Do you have a list/table of the values these variables can take ?  
If you do, translation is only a matter of writing down the translated values in the translation manager.  
Doc here: [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Creating+Translation+Lists](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Creating+Translation+Lists)  
If you don’t, then I don’t see a way to do this.

In any case, I suggest you follow the good practice as described here: [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Localization+Best+Practices](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Localization+Best+Practices)

The project I’m working on already has a lot of translations set up, but without following those good practices, and I’m afraid it’s gonna be an issue quite soon.