SharePoint Multi-Language Variation Site

We will use the SharePoint Online variations feature to create multi-language site.

There will be a source site (most probably in English) where most of the authoring and creation of content will take place and there will be another target site (in your native language) which will be created with the help of 'Machine Translation Service'.

In the above figure it can be seen that we will first create a variation site in English and there will be target site in Hindi which will be auto generated from English.

First to begin please make sure we have following things in place,

• Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature on the ‘Root Site’ collection
• ‘Root site’ is of type ‘Publishing Site’(in my case, http://sp2013labapp01/sites/demo )
• Language Pack Hindi should be installed on all the Servers in SharePoint Farm

At the end of this article we will have 2 links,

• Source Site in English: http://sp2013labapp01/sites/demo/en-us
• Target Site In Hindi : http://sp2013labapp01/sites/demo/hi-in

Configure Variation Settings for your ‘Root Site’

In this step we will configure which and what things to create variation for.

1. Go to Site Settings of your ‘Root Site’
2. Click on ‘Variation Settings’
3. Make sure the variation settings are as shown in the screenshot below
   
4. These are the default settings and easy to go for this tutorial. Click on ‘OK’

Creating and Configuring Machine Translation Service in SharePoint 2013

To Use the Machine Translation service to create the multi-language feature of SharePoint 2013 we need to first make the ‘Machine Translation Service’ up and running in your farm.

So this article will outline on creating and configuring the machine translation service for SharePoint and in the next article I will outline the steps to create a multi-language site.

Creating Machine Translation Service

Open Central Administration, go to Application Management section, and choose Manage service applications.

On the ribbon, choose New, and then choose Machine Translation Service.

On the next page type a name for the service application and fill in the details as shown in the screens below