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Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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why the SharePoint online site menus and action links are still showing in Italian langue although i change my language inside my profile

I created a modern communication site and i set its default language as English :- And the service account's default profile language created by our IT admin was Italian >> So i changed the ...
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Changing the browser language settings show a different name on the collumns

So basically, i have a SPO site that runs across multiple countries. The users use the change language settings on the browser, to have the language settings changed on the site. The site language is ...
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Change language in SPFX webpart

I have a question regarding the change of language inside custom spfx webpart. Normally, spfx follows SharePoint Online language settings for the user, but in my case I need the possibility for user ...
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Manual translation button disappearing

I am trying to translate pages for our SharePoint site. Everytime I refresh the page, the Translate button appears briefly for a fraction of a second, then disappears. I have gone in the site ...
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Does SharePoint online support translating the modern web parts similar to how we translate news page

I have a private team site >> and i enabled 2 languages "English" + "Arabic", as follow:- This allows us to have 2 versions of each new modern page one in English and the ...
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Can we have a translation for the list views similar to how we alternate News Pages

I have a private team site >> and i enabled 2 languages "English" + "Arabic", as follow:- where we are able to create new pages and translate them. but can we do the same ...
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Multi-Language is not working for Private Team site's Site Navigation + Site Name

I have a private team site >> and i enabled 2 languages "English" + "Arabic", as follow:- but i am unable to translate the site name, where there is not any option to do so:-...
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Navigation is not translated on SharePoint Online

I would like to translate the navigation of the SharePoint sites, I have EN,DE,PL sites and nav menu About Us, Home, Services. I have enabled languages in SharePoint Language setting, I have selected ...
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Change display language to Arabic

how can I change the display language of the site for all users to Arabic? I mean, I want the user interface to be for all users from right to left. I want users to see the right-to-left interface ...
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change navigation menu language based on site language

I've created a modern Sharepoint site with 2 languages English and Arabic, the navigation menu dose not change to the selected language when I chose the other language, however all site content ...
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Language pack security updates SharePoint 2019 language dependent which language to install?

We are running SharePoint 2019 English version, with a Swedish language pack also installed on top (we show all our sites in Swedish). Now for the language pack security updates for Aug 2021 KB5002000 ...
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Import RESX translation file trough PowerShell/PowerAutomate

Took a lot of effort to translate each field from Dutch to French. When I uploaded the resx file all was nicely translated. Right now I would like to enable this translation on each site existing and ...
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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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Document library included on page, wrong language in context menu

I added the webpart "Document Library" to a page and made my settings, I deactivated the command bar, selected a library (the page library where the modern pages and news pages are stored by default) ...
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SharePoint Online content translation

The company that I work for is switching from SP2010 to SP Online. I am really new to it and still learning everything. My question would be, Is it possible to automatically translate the entire ...
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(SPO) Subsite language template ignored

EDIT: apllies to Sharepoint Online. I have site collection based on the italian template. If I create a subsite and explicitly select the italian template, the subsite will turn out to be using ...
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How to use currentCultureName in place of currentUICultureName for locale files spfx

We have a site with variations in SP2016, the display language is in "es-es" but the variation language is "en-us". We add a webpart of spfx with locale resources for translate constants texts, and ...
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Fields are in different language in view vs in new/edit/display form

I have very strange SharePoint 2010 behaviour. Basically I have SharePoint site in 2 languages, default is English and there is German. So when I change my language to German then there is everything ...
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Cannot Change Language in SP 2016

The environment I have consists of two site collections. One site collection is the User's MySite, and another site collection is a general site and subsites used and shared by all users. I've ...
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How can I change the language for all default files, folders, titles, etc.? Or how can I recreate them?

I bought Office 365 Business with SharePoint in Thailand because I live in Thailand and they have a special price here. On my first login the user interface and all files, folder, titles, etc. were in ...
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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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Linguistic search features filter search results

we handle a lot of documents in different languages. Trying to search for documents and getting no results we've come up to linguistic-search-features saying SharePoint Server use several ...
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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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Change site content based on user language

Hi we are tasked to implement automatic language translation on our new SharePoint Online site as we have international users that will access the site. We already created our landing page which ...
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SP 2016 Configuration Failed - Failed to create the configuration DB

I installed SharePoint 2016 on Windows Server 2016 with SQL Server 2016. I ran the Configuration wizard to create a Single Server Farm but the wizard failed to create the configuration database. Then ...
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Changing/Setting Site Language in SharePoint 2013

I'm trying to set the language of a SharePoint site to Swedish (or, create a new site in Swedish). I have found a few articles online giving mixed answers. Here is what I've tried: On a site, go ...
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Hot to get list's title in current language?

Can anyone help me with getting data from sharepoint in foreign language ? Imagine, that I've alredy successfully loaded list by title like this: //listTitle = "Contacten" in Dutch var SpList = ...
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Setting SharePoint locale / language based on Domain?

We are trying to set the Culture on our sites and initially it seems to have worked but we've noticed that when we navigate to sites and we get the "Working on it" this isn't getting translated to the ...
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SharePoint Online: Invitation in Finnish language

My colleague sent an invitation to SharePoint Online website to german external users. It is commnon that invitations are send in English, but this one was sent in Finnish language. My question is how ...
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InfoPath and SharePoint language changes

We are trying to use SharePoint 2013 and InfoPath as an incident reporting system for a global company. Is there a way to allow users in countries using languages other than English to view and enter ...
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Change SharePoint language based on current user's country

Any ideas how to change the current SharePoint language based on the current user's country? Appreciate any suggestions, Thanks
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How to change Sharepoint server response language?

I'm using an existing SharePoint 2013 Server that was installed in French. I'm testing different features of the SharePoint REST API and as you would expect I'm getting a LOT of exceptions and errors. ...
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How to get Choice Fields Choices in alternative language?

Is there a way to get Choice Fields choices in alternative language? I have a web site that is in Swedish and alternative language English. I'm using resource files. The field name is translated ...
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Does a site collections default language have any special significance?

Is there any special significance to having one language or the other as the default language when you create a site collection? This is on Sharepoint Online if that makes any difference. Ie we´re a ...
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How can you configure the default language for site collections?

I know you can set the default language when you create a site collection using powershell. However, if you don't specify this, it uses a default value. Where is this default value set? I can't see ...
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Change language in delve using CSOM or REST api Sharepoint online?

Delve has user profile property of languages. I have a requirement that on a click of a button I have to update this field in user profile. It's in SharePoint online. I have googled it and found how ...
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Changing SharePoint Online New homepage language

I have a customer who has problem with the new SharePoint home page now available in O365 tenants. The SPO language is by default English as they're international company but the language for the new ...
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Getting current site language

I want to get the current site language as I am implementing a custom module that will depend on web language. I am new to SharePoint and the company is using multi language site or site collection.
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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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Calculated Formula in Swedish Language

I have the following calculated Column formula =CONCATENATE(Title ,LEFT("00000" ,5-(LEN( TEXT(NextNumber,"0") ) ...
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Sharepoint 2013 foundation display language

Only way we get search working is to change above settings: "User Name" -> My Settings -> My Language and Region -> My Display Languages. First one should be my native language and second one should ...
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User Profile Synchronization Service does not start due to Serialization Error: "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime"

I'm Trying to start User Profile Synchronization Service on a Sharepoint 2013 system but it does not and it reports the following error in ULS: UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Error updating ...
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What is best practice for supporting dual languages in SharePoint?

We need to support English and French.
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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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How to test languages in enterprise wiki?

We just started an Office 365 site that has Sharepoint. We have users that read English, French, or German, and I want to configure a site that shows the same content in each language. Someone ...
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Language of app web

I'm working on an Access SharePoint app but I think this also applies to SharePoint hosted apps. When I create a new app, the app runs in an app web which is automatically created. The language of ...
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Language code of a site collection

Is there a way to get the language code of a site collection using powershell?
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The language is not supported on the server

I installed Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3411 On creating a new site collection using PowerShell with ...
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Error when entering search center for some users

I recently encountered an issue: when entering our Search center logged in as a user with alternate language set, I receive the following error message: "Literal content (' ') is not allowed within ...
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How to get default language of termSet

I want to get the language of termSet from term group in which it was written. for example if termSet language is English it should return English and if its language is Swedish, it should return ...
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