New Multilingual Feature In SharePoint Modern Sites

Introduction

 
Some exciting news for SharePoint Modern site users, Microsoft has added a very interesting and most-needed feature for the translation of Language. If business users are provided with a one-page step-by-step guideline to perform this on their own, the dependency on SharePoint developers is way minimum. In this blog post, you will see how to enable the setting itself and its usability across the site.
 

Step-by-Step to Enable Multiple Languages 

 
Step 1
 
Go to Site Settings -> Under Site Administration select Language Settings
 
Below snapshot is what you get,
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 
On clicking on Show advanced settings, you can choose from the languages you want to select. By default, all the languages are selected as shown below snapshot.
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 
Click on Hide advanced settings
 
Step 2
 
Now let’s enable the languages. The below snapshot holds a couple of example languages, you can select the languages you want to,
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 

Usability of Languages on Site Pages

 
Now the enabled languages are available on each Site page you created after you performed the below steps.
 
Step 1
 
Go to your Site Homepage and observe the below-marked changes after enabling the language setting feature. It will look something like this,
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 
Step 2
 
Now to change the language for this page, edit this page and create the pages you desire by clicking on translation as shown below,
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 
Step 3
 
After publishing the page, there is communication via email to the user-provided Translator while enabling the feature as below,
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 
Step 4
 
This is how the page looks if you select the desired language from the drop-down,
 
New Multilingual Feature in SharePoint Modern Sites
 

Summary

 
We have seen a very great feature of multiple language translation on Site pages in SharePoint Modern sites. Hope you find it useful and use it for great team collaborations!