Building multilingual websites

Waldek MastykarzSharePoint MVPMavention

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• Dedicated sites• contoso.nl, contoso.dk, contoso.no

• Subsites• contoso.com/nl, contoso.com/dk, contoso.com/no

Types of multilingual

• The engine for implementing multilingual• New in SharePoint 2013• Create Selectively• Translation Management

SharePoint 2013 Variations

Sample scenarios

Leverage cross-site publishing• Authoring site• Centralized content management• Variations for each country• Catalog for each country

• Publishing site• Separate Host Named Site Collection for every country• Catalog connection to the country’s catalog

Dedicated site for each country

Leverage cross-site publishing• Authoring site• Centralized content management• Variations for each country• Catalog for each country

• Publishing site• Catalog connection to the countries’ catalogs• Language included in the URL when connecting to the catalogs• New Result Source that combines both catalogs• Common set of Category and Catalog Item pages across all languages

Subsite for each country within a common site

Demo

Building a multilingual website with dedicated site for each country

• Variations are the approach to multilingual in SharePoint 2013

• Improved and new capabilities• Very powerful when combined with cross-

site publishing

Summary

• Mavention Case Studyhttp://blog.mastykarz.nl/go/mavention-case/

More information

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