Create Multilingual Communication Sites Pages SharePoint Online

This blog helps with enabling multilingual features in SharePoint Communication Sites and creating multilingual modern pages.

Introduction

 

This blog helps in enabling multilingual features in SharePoint Communication Sites and creating multilingual modern pages.

How to Enable Features

 

To enable the latest multilingual feature in communication site, follow the below steps

1. Navigate to SharePoint site collection settings
   
   URL:- https://yoursite.sharepoint.com/_layouts/settings.aspx
   
   
2. Select the "Language settings" option present inside "Site Administration"
   
   
   
   
3. Enable the toggle button with the below text
   
   "Enable pages and news to be translated into multiple languages"
   
   
4. From the dropdown "Select or type a language"
   
   Either open the dropdown or type the language for which translations are required
   
   
5. We can specify translators if required this would send an email to the user when a translation for that specific language is available

 

 

How to Create a Translation for a Specific Page

1. Navigate to the Page where we require a translation
2. Click on the "Translation" present as shown in the image below
3. To create a Translation for all the languages, click on "Create for all languages"
4. To create one for a specific language, click on "Create" next to the language

 

 

How to Change the Language for the Page

1. In the top right corner, we get a dropdown which displays all available translations for the page
2. We can select any translations and can see the translated page.

 

 

Translated Pages Location

1. A folder with the language initials is created in the "Site Pages" Library
2. All the translated pages are present inside the folder.