Questions tagged [multilingual]

Pertaining to the use of multiple written languages, through the process of localization.

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Translate SharePoint list columns programmatically

Can someone, please, suggest an approach to translate SharePoint columns programmatically? I tried different approaches including PowerShell, but nothing seems to be working. Sample PS code that does ...
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Import .resx translations programmatically

I am trying to figure out how to import <site>.fr-FR.resx translation file programmatically. Can someone, suggest an approach, please?
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MUI not working for Sharepoint Online Site

I'm setting up a site in Sharepoint Online. Some users need translation, so I've tried to enable MUI feature. I followed the steps here. The alternative languages are checked, user languages are set ...
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New web part for multiple pages

I have a modern SharePoint Hub site and the option for multiple languages is enabled for it. When I change the layout of the site (for example: I add a new text web part on the German site) it's not ...
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SharePoint Online Multilingual Termstore

I am creating a multilingual SharePoint Online site, so I activated site language on the site and added Czech as a language. I am able to translate pages without issue and the correct page language ...
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Modern Multilingual pages in SPO

I have case PROD site had some pages and their translations created. We migrated the pages (using Sharegate) to the QA site. The translation connection is lost (on the QA site) and new translation ...
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Could not find the option translate in navigation menu of SharePoint online - Multilingual

I want enable multilingual in SharePoint online. I have enable multiple languages in Setting -> Language Setting Then I could able to create page for Chinese (Simplified) language. But when I try ...
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Multilingual sites using HTTPModule

I have a HTTP Module deployed on a SharePoint 2019 site collection to implement multilingual based on site URL. For example: "/sites/test_en" must be shown in english "/sites/test_fr&...
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SharePoint Online modern site: Create Site column with multilingual Title using powershell

I can't figure-out how to create a site column with multilingual Title in SharePoint Online on modern sites using powershell. Example: I would like to create a column with the English Title "...
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Standard web parts not saving custom titles in multiple languages

I have a SharePoint Online modern team site in english language with german as an alternative language. When I add a standard News web part its default title for an user with english language is "News"...
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Enabling Multilingual/Localization in SharePoint Framework Client Side Webparts

How to do Multilingual/Localization support in SharePoint Framework Client Side Webparts?
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Why can't I select alternative Working Languages in Term Store Management Tool?

I tried to create a multi-lingual term sets for a SharePoint Online Team Site following this guide. When trying to change the working language all options are grayed out and I can't select them. Same ...
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Multilingual site in sharepoint server 2016

I want to create a multilingual site in sharepoint with one language as English and other language as Arabic. Now I my feeling I will have to use two master pages one for Arabic and other for English. ...
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Issue with Variations on SharePoint 2019

I have a site with 12 pages inside the /Pages document library and also 5 sub-sites and 7 lists. I want to create variations for this site in English and French (French package language already ...
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multi language List view sharepoint 2013

Hi I am creating a new site collection to my organization and i want to add News list which will contain news in both languages English and Arabic I create a new list then i Add column such as ...
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Bing Translation APIs with SharePoint Online

I keep seeing articles stating that you can use Bing Translation APIs for Multilingual SharePoint Online. Has anyone tried this? If so, how do you set it up?
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Culture issue on first visit to site

On an existing SharePoint 2010 site, we have a problem with first time visitors. The site is setup to be multilingual. The server installlation is English, there is an additional Dutch language pack ...
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Multillingual column name becomes internal name

I have a problem where a column used by a couple of content types is correctly named Document version when the user views the page in Swedish, but the display names becomes the internal name ...
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What is the best way for bilingual website in SharePoint?

I am new to SharePoint bilingual web-applications and I need to know what is the best practice/way to develop the website. I am really not interested to use the SharePoint variation and getting two ...
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Multilingual Forms possible with Infopath or Nintex?

I have setup a multilingual site, which works perfectly fine so far. But now I hit a roadblock with editing list forms. For translation of column names and descriptions I follow this method. ...
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bilingual webpart in SharePoint Online

We have web-part made on jQuery and HTML. This web-part will be use in two different language. In SP 2013 on-premise we use to create wsp which contains resx file for each different language, but as ...
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How to make a modern communication site with a main language that is different from the tenant language

We are trying to recreate a custom multilingual experience for a company and we have explored many different ideas. Please note that the main issue is the site language, not its content (as we can ...
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SharePoint 2013 ListData.svc works for English language and fails for other languages

We have SharePoint 2013 On premises multilingual site, To get the user details we are using the below query to get the login user details from the User Information list /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/...
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SharePoint Site Language Translator

Hi is there any application or tools that we can automatically change the page content labels etc.. to other languages in SharePoint? Right now we are developing our new site and we need to make our ...
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Can we use sharepoint online root site as source variation

Hi we are now working in multi language in SharePoint and we need to set the root site as source instead of its sub site. I read that in variation we need to set the en-US as main source but in our ...
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Sync/Save list data from root site to subsite

Is it possible to save newly created item from list one from the root site to the same list in the other sub site. Currently we are implementing country specific site and we have the global site ...
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"Create Translation Package" via API?

On multilingual SharePoint websites you can export/import the content with XLIFF files. Is this functionality somehow available via the API? Multi-language website background here: Create a multi-...
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Multilingual Site Column and Content Types in SharePoint Online

After having selected Arabic as an alternate language from site setting, I have updated user profile for the preferred language. The result is that all content is converted into arabic language, but ...
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SharePoint 2013 cmscore resource wrong translation for List_Pages_UrlName

I am using CSOM to get dutch translation of the 'List_Pages_UrlName' field in cmscore.nl-NL.resx resource file from the Dutch language pack. // Get the language of the web var context = web.Context; ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Switch Language

I need to develop a button Language switcher. I have downloaded a solution from CodePlex named Togglelanguage (https://togglelanguage.codeplex.com/). This type of solution apparently works well, but ...
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Correct way to save special chars in CEWP content link

I have a content editor web part. I have content, it is stored in a file on the site collection in a Folder of the site collection (not a doc lib) to hide it from the users as it contains html ...
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how to omit white space in web parts

hi I used webparts like announcement and news and promoted links in my page but we have white space in left site of them what should we do ?
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Variation on Existing site

I am trying to understand how variations works with SharePoint 2013. I have already gone through the details, so understand the basics. I have read these: http://blog.consejoinc.com/2011/01/creating-...
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Site Variations: How to delete items?

I'm setting up variations in SharePoint 365. On my test site, I have US English, and propagate to French and Spanish sites. If want to delete a item/list/page/site and also update the two target ...
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Create only one page for multiple languages in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013, can I create one page only for multiple languages without installing language packs. Will SharePoint publish site support it?
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Multilingual support in website

I am using SP2013 & I want to create multilingual support for my current SP site , Is there any way except google translate ? any other plug-in or anything ?
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Language of app web is not taken from the user settings

I am currently developing a multi-language SharePoint hosted app and I am experiencing an issue that the app web is not taking the user's language settings. It looks like the app web always takes the ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Search in Multilingual sites

I created a Site and changed it to Arabic from the site. But when I am trying to Search any Content in Arabic it is displaying it as "Nothing Matches here". If I am searching the content in English, ...
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Multilingual Taxonomy Search

I don't know whether this is possible in SharePoint or not but can someone please confirm about this. I have created a multi-lingual term set so for ex. for a term called energy I added a Spanish ...
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Caml defined Custom Action, UrlAction and the multi language interface

When defining a custom action via the CAML schema definition, the UrlAction parameter specifies the "site or site collection relative URL of the page, for example, ~site/_layouts/sampleurl.aspx or ~...
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Multilingual search in SharePoint 2013

Our SP2013 farm (standard edition on-premise) contains both English and Chinese documents. In search center users have to switch the language preference to get the full results. It is because some ...
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Difference in way French Characters are displayed between environments

We have two SharePoint 2013 environments (DEV and UAT) and there are differences in the way French characters are displayed between the environments. In the image below the top is from DEV where ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Resource files location

I'm trying to translate some resource files of sharepoint 2013. I can't find the messages on the DeltaPageStatusBar when you start to modify the page For example the resource file for this mesages: ...
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How to Build a Multi-Language Site?

We are using Office-365 and need to set up a multi-language sharepoint site. How do we do this? I see a question here about permissions. And I have a question here about how to test multi-languages ...
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SharePoint 2010 OOTB filtering and sorting is not working in XsltListViewWebPart in Arabic

I am working on a multilingual site in English and Arabic. I have some pages with XsltListViewWebPart to view custom lists with no more than 12 fields to display. These are connecting webparts and ...
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SharePoint 2013 multilingual text based on regional settings

I have a SharePoint 2013 site with custom newsfeed webpart. The news items are retrieved from a Custom SharePoint list. I want to change the header of the webpart to different language based on the ...
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App doesn't receive language from SharePoint site

For a project I'm developing a multi-lingual site. The site contains an App part that should display localized content, depending on which variation label site the user is browsing the site. Consider ...
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How can I make top menu navigation multilingual?

I have a site that uses managed metadata for top navigation. The metadata is set with several languages but when I switch the language of SharePoint my top navigation doesn't change. What am i doing ...
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Any working multilingual option for Sharepoint Online site?

While setting up a small SharePoint site, I need to get multilinguarity: The site language is Swedish, but one subsite should be translated to Finnish for some users (those have no access to other ...
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Getting TermSet for a different locale using JSOM

I'm trying to pull back the labels from a term store for a different locale in SharePoint Online. So I have installed the different language packs in the term store: And then I have added a TermSet ...