Save a multilingual site as template

Question

I created a site and set the language settings to multiple languages, so users can switch between different languages for the MUI.

But I have also custom columns in a list. So, i translated the titles of the custom columns by switching through the languages and changed each column title.

So, that works fine.

But i want to export this site as a template, so it can be re-used. But if i have 5 different languages in my "original" site, i have only one language in my site created with the site template. And so, i also loose all information about my translated custom site column titles.

Is there a solution to export all this information in a site template.

And if not, is there a solution to manage translatable custom site columns (without variations).

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't think this can be done. If you want those site columns to be reused on other sites, having the correct translations, you're better of using a custom solution with a site feature anyway.

Suppose you've got your source site and you want to add a new column including translations. Or suppose you've reused you're columns on three sites, and then you find out for one column s single translation is wrong. That's all stuff you don't want to deal with.

So in my opinion there's to options: 1. Build a solution for the site columns. 2. Use the medata content type hub to publish your site columns onto different sites, that should work multilingual as well.