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SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By : JOHN CHAPMAN
Book Image

SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By: JOHN CHAPMAN

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring site collection variation settings


Variations in SharePoint allow site administrators to create multiple versions of the same site in various languages. This provides a simple yet powerful tool for creating multilingual websites. In a site collection with variations, a source variation site (or label) is configured as the primary location for content to be authored. For each variation (or language), a target site (or label) is created that receives its content from the source site.

In this recipe, we will cover the basic settings for site collection variations that we will use when we create our source and target labels in the Creating the primary language variation label and Creating the secondary language variation labels recipes.

Note

The site containing the variations must be a publishing site. The root site of the site collection does not need to be a publishing site, just the site that will contain the variations. Trying to configure variations in a site that is not a publishing...