My SharePoint Variations Notes
May 16, 2008
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Features:
- Building multilingual sites by building a site (called Label) for every language and transferring the changes from source language site to all other sites.
- Redirecting the user to the site matching the browser language.
- Placing a control to change the language in the top navigation bar.
- A service is running every 20 min to propagate changes from the source language site to all other sites.
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Limitations:
- Transferring changes from the source language to others. So changes in any language other than the source are not reflected in other sites.
- Pushing a new version from a page to all sites even if there is a minor change like spelling mistake.
- One to one relationship with site collection (one variation per site collection).
- Lists changes are transfer only when it’s contained in a new site created.
- When creating sites using features the target sites created without localization.
- The localization is working only when creating new sub site and the label sites.
- List view web part references the source site list in every site it is propagated to(because it use the list ID).
- Variation fails when trying to push a page when there is a page with the same name but with different content type in the destination site.
- Permissions are not propagated.
- Works only on publishing pages.
- Can’t change default page layout.
- Don’t support site restore.
- Variation sites must be in the same level and their parent site must be the root of the variation.
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Risks (from blogs):
- Sometimes variations cause performance issues.
- May cause an expected behavior with heavy look and feel customizations.
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Variations in other Blogs:
- Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1 <http://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/archive/2007/11/02/dumping-moss-2007-variations-part-1.aspx>
- Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 2<http://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/archive/2007/11/02/dumping-moss-2007-variations-part-2.aspx>
- Some comments on common Variation problems
<http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/11/15/some-comments-on-common-variation-problems.aspx>
Entry Filed under: Multilingual & Localization, Sharepoint, Uncategorized. Tags: Multilingual, Sharepoint, Variations, Wss.
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