Questions tagged [localization]
In computing, internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market.
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Multilingual SharePoint Framework (SPFx) - switching language
I'm adding multilingual support to an existing webpart. Easy enough with the different locale string files and testing with the --locale pararmeter on gulp serve.
What I don't understand though is ...
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How to use a ResX file to batch translate list columns in SharePoint Online
I'm trying to use ResX Resource Manager (RRM) to batch translate list columns in SharePoint Online.
Something's not working as I expected and I'm not sure where I went wrong. I'm using SharePoint in ...
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How to mark a page as a language copy?
I have a SharePoint Online site, where I need to translate some pages into different target languages. My site's default language is English, thus the source language of a page is always English. The ...
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How to create a specific language copy of a page with REST API?
I came across this article, which states that a language copy can be created with an API call like this:
POST https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/_api/sitepages/pages(<Source page ID>)/...
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issues while trying to localize site column
I found a few option on how to localize or provide a localized site column.
PnP templates with resource files will provide the fields in the language but will not localize it when the site language ...
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PowerShell - Add a secondary admin to SP sites including OneDrive sites, change sites locale and remove the secondary admin account
Good morning all.
I have a dilemma - our SP tenant has been set with UK region, but with US locale. and this causes problems with American date formats etc.
I have run the following PS script to ...
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Multilingual PNP provisioning for SharePoint Group
Did anybody try applying localization using PNP Provisioning for SharePoint groups? I have tried but it is not working. Can somebody please help?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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How to modify the SharePoint Online List field names for every language?
SharePoint Online List "Display name" - Not the same for everyone (Localization)
Hello Guys,
My co-worker changed the name of a SharePoint Online list field (via list settings, not the quick editor) ...
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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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import interface in mystrings.d.ts
I want to add multiple languages to my spfx web part.
Now I want to import some interfaces to my mystrings.d.ts declaration file.
But when I do that it breaks the definition and I get a lot of errors ...
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After upgraded Sharepoint Foundation we have unicode/letter issues
So no need to pretend like I'm an expert cause I'm not.
We have a file management system we use for a lot of stuff that was developed for us a few years back, this is hosted on a Sharepoint ...
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How can I force a PowerShell runbook return English error messages
I have a localized tenant and troubleshooting a SharePoint provisioning runbook.
My problem is that it returns mixed (localized and English) error messages.
Like New-PnPWeb gives English errors, but ...
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SharePoint list forms not taking labels from Resource files
I have a site with 2 languages i.e., English and Arabic. Here I have two different webs with their respective languages as default i.e., English for en-us and Arabic for ar-qa. I have created resource ...
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sharepoint localization
I have a SharePoint site with variation En,Ar. I want to add new sub-site say Fr but the site in English language but the master-page, menu, titles and the content will be in french and the admin site ...
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SP2013 retrieving localized term Path (term.getPath(lcid))
I'm on SP2013 on prem, using JSOM trying to retrieved localized version of term's path:
function getTranslation(refinerguid, language, termstorename, success, error){
initTax(termstorename); ...
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Disable field name localization
I'm using a SharePoint team site in an international setting, and I would like the entire site to be in English. Unfortunately, when some columns titles and descriptions were changed, these changes ...
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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 2013 REST endpoint URI structure. How to get list with localized title?
I can not understand how to work with localized lists. Using the article from msdn, everything works fine if my list has a title in English. But if I want to localize the sheet, I can not take the ...
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Are there any differences between passing a localID as 1033(US) or as 2057(UK) when creating a new sub-site using SPWeb.Add() inside my event receiver
I am working on a SharePoint Enterprise server 2013 . and i have an event receiver which get fired when an item is updated, and the event receiver will create a new sub-site using the following line ...
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Localization with JSOM in SharePoint hosted app
I have a SharePoint hosted app. The whole provisioning is with JSOM. The app creates a subsite of the host web and columns, content types etc on the host itself and they are inherited to the subsites. ...
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Prevent CSS file from getting localized
In my master page, I have reference to theme file as-
<SharePoint:CssRegistration Name="Themable/corev15.css" runat="server" />
My problem is on my site for different locales, the CSS file is ...
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How can I filter a REST query when the field's name is translated?
I have the following query :
/_api/Web/Lists/GetByTitle('Discussions list')/Items?$filter=ContentType eq 'Discussion'"
This works perfectly while my profile is set to English.
When I'm set to ...
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Localizing SharePoint 2013 report viewer web part
How can I change what is written on the Report viewer web part when it is waiting for the parameters to be set like :
Also, how to change the text of the apply button in the parameters area:
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SPLanguageSettings.PreferredDisplayLanguages vs SPLanguageSettings.PreferredDisplayLanguagesNoClient?
I tried to debug and found that the collection these both are identical:
SPLanguageSettings.PreferredDisplayLanguages
SPLanguageSettings.PreferredDisplayLanguagesNoClient
I then tried to add a new ...
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Convert column Wic_System_GPS_Latitude
I'm writing an event receiver to set a geolocation column.
In my library i have columns Wic_System_GPS_Latitude and Wic_System_GPS_Longitude.
It retrieves correctly the value of the picture but i need ...
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How to create a map view inside documentset
In SharePoint 2013, I've a library with content type Document Set.
Inside the document set I've a content type "Picture" with column geolocation.
Are there a way to have a view map inside my document ...
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Save Calculated Column Formula in Language Localized notation using REST or JSOM?
[multiple blogs/posts out there noted the issue, no solution was ever published]
What is required to save a Localized Calculated Column Formula using JSOM/REST?
I am injecting the script below into ...
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What is the difference between Title and TitleResource
If I am localizing SharePoint a lot of Fields have 2 public properties:
Title
TitleResource
What is the difference between them?
Currently I am localizing a Field with this piece of code:
foreach (...
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Localizing Ribbon Custom Action
I am localizing a SharePoint Hosted App and successfully applied localization to custom list but localizing following two elements seems to be not working:
Ribbon Custom Action
Menu Item Custom ...
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Site column definitions displaying resource keys instead of values
I wrote a Boris.SP.Abl.SiteColumns.sr-Latin-RS.resx resource file for a SharePoint 2013 farm solution project. I followed the tips from here to ensure that the resource is deployed to both %15hive%/...
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Localized list views in SharePoint-hosted Apps
I was trying to localize my SharePoint app and I encountered a bit of a problem. I created a feature resx file, added all the names to it and replaced my static names with $Resources:[...
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How to loop through all WebParts controls
There is a way I loop through all controls of my Sharepoint 2013 Visual WebPart, and only them? Something like this:
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foreach(var _control in this.Controls)
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if (_control.typeof() == <...
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Content Type Localization
I am trying to localize a SharePoint 2013 Content Type.
I created a new Content Type in Visual Studio and Added a few Sitecolumns to it.
I also added a Feature Resource file and linked the ...
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Resource translation in custom WebPart failure
Some resources of my project aren't translated properly. Wanted behavior is resource displayed in both French and English. Default site's language is English.
When I force my web browser to display ...
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How to get Title Resource from a View with JSOM or REST?
I am able to get title/name resource from lists, content types and fields. However, I'm not able to get title resource from views.
I'm not sure how well documented this is, but this is how I get ...
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Changing client web part properties Title/Description with diffrent languages
We want to change our client web part Title and Description depending on Supported locales(languages).
The Validation checklist for apps:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj938162(v=...
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Custom Web Service - CurrentCulture is incorrect
I have created a custom WCF Web Service in a SharePoint solution and deployed it to a SharePoint 2013 environment. The svc file is located in the ISAPI folder and I am able to call it and use it ...
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get the current lang in xslt
I'm new with XSLT and have a WebPart refiner.
In the XSLT, i've the param at the beginning: CurrentLcid
<xsl:param name="CurrentLcid"></xsl:param>
When i test the value, the value is ...
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How to get GetLocalizedstring for announcement list
I am trying to add xsltlistviewwebpart and it has to be from announcement list.
How to write this line?
string str = "$Resources:??";//How to get announcement list reference here?
public static ...
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Proper method of localizing aspx pages
I have a feature in which several aspx pages are deployed to the pages library of a 2010 environment. These are fairly standard aspx pages in that they are attaching to the default maser page, have ...
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How can I install list from English template in German SharePoint?
I have a list, that was customized with InfoPath. I exported it as template and wanted to create list from this template in another server.
The original list was created in SharePoint with English ...
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Problem with Localization of ContentTypes
I've developed some content types. There are no resource files in my solution. When I'm deploying them to an English team site the description is correctly displayed. If I deploy them to a German team ...
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jQuery globalization in SharePoint 2010
jQuery UI and validation are strongly dependent upon regional settings. Consider for example a date validation or a number validation, it cannot work irrespective of the current locale.
For this ...
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How do I localize page layouts and masterpages in a sandboxed solution?
In farm solutions you can use resource files inside aspx-pages by deploying resx-files to the hive. MSDN have some documentation but there's no example for page layouts, just managed code which is ...
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Localization of Visual Web Part: Where to place RESX files
I'm currently localizing a visual web part for the very first time. I'm following this MSDN guide in the first place and I'm a little bit confused about where to place the resource strings or resx-...
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Localization of web part label using VS 2010 in a sandbox solution
I have created a sandbox project in sharepoint. I have a module folder which has resources file.
I need to localize one label in a web part in Arabic language.
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Web template resource file examples
Using resource files for Web Template:
How to add a localized Title to a list instance?
How to add a localized Title to a web part added in ONET.XML?
how to add localized terms in a CEWP contents ...
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Web template resource files: best practice
What is the proper recommended way to add resource files in Web Templates?
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Is it possible to make the sp group names localizable when created using powershell
I have been able to create a powershell script that creates sharepoint groups per site collection. But I need to create this groups in 2 different languages.
my question is, is it possible to make ...
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How do I localize web part title?
I'm adding a bunch of web parts to a page using a module like this:
<AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="TopLeftRow" WebPartOrder="1">
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<webParts>
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