SharePoint 2013 Variations Using Powershell

Question

I am using powershell to manage the creation of some site variations following this tutorial:

http://www.sharepointeurope.com/blog/2013/7/23/automate-variations-in-sharepoint-2013-using-powershell-c

It is working but now I need to enable Human Translation and Machine Translation. How can I do that using powershell?? Currently I am using the below code. In Allow human translation it shows that No column found. Same for Allow machine translation. It shows me no column found. Please help.

$item = $list.Items.Add();
$item["Title"] = $label_DE_Title;
$item["Description"] = $label_DE_Description;
$item["Allow human translation"]=$true;
$item["Language"] = $label_DE_Language;
$item["Locale"] = $label_DE_Locale;
$item["Hierarchy Creation Mode"] = $label_DE_HierarchyCreationMode;
$item["Is Source"] = $label_DE_IsSource;
$item["Hierarchy Is Created"] = $false;

Answer 1

You need to set correct properties while creating Variation Labels, see example for Swedish label (c#) when both Machine and Human Translations are enabled using MachineTranslationEnabled and HumanTranslationEnabled

                    Title = "sv-SE",
                    FlagControlDisplayName = "Svenska",
                    Language = "sv-SE",
                    Locale = 1053,
                    HierarchyCreationMode = CreationMode.PublishingSitesAndAllPages,
                    IsSource = false,
                    MachineTranslationEnabled = true,
                    HumanTranslationEnabled = true,
                    HumanTranslationLanguage = 1053

Could you use IsMachineTranslationEnabledField and IsHumanTranslationEnabled with PowerShell to see if you're referring to correct columns? Sorry, I can't test it myself at the moment

Answer 2

The column name is "Is Machine Translation Enabled".

This worked for me

$item["Is Machine Translation Enabled"] = $true;