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Good day, SharePointers a customer requirement is to have CVs entered in a list with his name in English and a local language. which means we will have a field for each language.

is there a better way to accomplish that in SP 2010?

thanks

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what do you mean, "a field for each language". why don't you want to use only two fields: for english & for local language? – Andrey Markeev Apr 20 '11 at 13:06

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Could you not limit it to the following columns?

  1. Name (English)
  2. Name (Local)
  3. Local Language
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Jaap is back :-D – Anders Rask♦ Apr 20 '11 at 12:50
it has so many other columns including lookup and description. – Bassel Alkhateeb Apr 20 '11 at 13:18
I'm not sure I got what you meant though – Bassel Alkhateeb Apr 20 '11 at 13:19
Will you ever store more than 2 names against one item? If not, why would you need a column for each language? You could have an optional third column to indicate which language the non-English version of name was in. Obviously your other columns would be added to the list as well, I am just listing the ones you would need to allow for multilingual names. – Jaap Vossers Apr 20 '11 at 13:30
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No official way. What I am proposing gets around having a column per language, does it not solve your problem? – Jaap Vossers Apr 20 '11 at 14:15
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What if you create another list for CV information. That list should columns: linking id, language(valuelist) and CV-text. By that way there you could have as many languages as you want.

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I wouldn't create a column for every language, unless it is limited to only a few as you will run out of available columns eventually.

Other options include:

  • One field that stores all the other non-primary language names

  • Create a second list with: Name, Localized Name and Locale columns. Make the Name column at look up to your primary list & Locale could be a choice field with the various locales in it. Enter a row for each localized name for that person. A typical One to Many DB relationship. A stretch goal could be to customize the primary List View to show the related name rows inline.

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