Enable multiple-language website support

Business isn't confined to a single region or a language. A single website can display content in multiple languages to reach customers around the world. The content of your website can be translated into multiple languages while maintaining a single content hierarchy.

To enable multiple languages for a website, follow these steps:

1. Enable languages in a Microsoft Dataverse environment.

   Note

   Make sure that the process to enable a language on Dataverse completes before continuing to the next step. It may take an hour or more to provision the languages.

2. In the Portals Management app

3. Go to Website > Websites.

4. Select the website to add language support to.

5. In the Supported Languages section under the General tab, select New Website Language.

6. Fill in the form, including Portal Language (a lookup of languages that are activated in the organization and are supported by portals) and Publishing State.

   

   

You can set the default language of your website by changing the Default Language lookup to one of the enabled website languages.

Note

• If you activate new languages after the website has been provisioned, you can import the metadata translations to get the metadata translated for the newly activated languages.
• You will also need to update the language text for any custom labels on Dataverse tables and columns to appear on forms and lists on portal web pages.

Supported languages

The table below shows all the languages currently available out of the box. This list can be found by going to the Portals Management app, in the Content section and then select Portal Languages. The display name of a language can be changed after selecting the language to change from this page.

Name	Language Code	LCID	Portal Display Name
Basque - Basque	eu-ES	1069	euskara
Bulgarian - Bulgaria	bg-BG	1026	български
Catalan - Catalan	ca-ES	1027	català
Chinese - China	zh-CN	2052	中文(中国)
Chinese - Hong Kong SAR	zh-HK	3076	中文(香港特別行政區)
Chinese - Traditional	zh-TW	1028	中文(台灣)
Croatian - Croatia	hr-HR	1050	hrvatski
Czech - Czech Republic	cs-CZ	1029	čeština
Danish - Denmark	da-DK	1030	dansk
Dutch - Netherlands	nl-NL	1043	Nederlands
English	en-US	1033	English
Estonian - Estonia	et-EE	1061	eesti
Finnish - Finland	fi-FI	1035	suomi
French - France	fr-FR	1036	français
Galician - Spain	gl-ES	1110	galego
German - Germany	de-DE	1031	Deutsch
Greek - Greece	el-GR	1032	Ελληνικά
Hindi - India	hi-IN	1081	हिंदी
Hungarian - Hungary	hu-HU	1038	magyar
Indonesian - Indonesia	id-ID	1057	Bahasa Indonesia
Italian - Italy	it-IT	1040	italiano
Japanese - Japan	ja-JP	1041	日本語
Kazakh - Kazakhstan	kk-KZ	1087	қазақ тілі
Korean - Korea	ko-KR	1042	한국어
Latvian - Latvia	lv-LV	1062	latviešu
Lithuanian - Lithuania	lt-LT	1063	lietuvių
Malay - Malaysia	ms-MY	1086	Bahasa Melayu
Norwegian (Bokmål) - Norway	nb-NO	1044	norsk bokmål
Polish - Poland	pl-PL	1045	polski
Portuguese - Brazil	pt-BR	1046	português (Brasil)
Portuguese - Portugal	pt-PT	2070	português (Portugal)
Romanian - Romania	ro-RO	1048	română
Russian - Russia	ru-RU	1049	русский
Serbian (Cyrillic) - Serbia	sr-Cyrl-CS	3098	српски
Serbian (Latin) - Serbia	sr-Latn-CS	2074	srpski
Slovak - Slovakia	sk-SK	1051	slovenčina
Slovenian - Slovenia	sl-SI	1060	slovenščina
Spanish (Traditional Sort) - Spain	es-ES	3082	español
Swedish - Sweden	sv-SE	1053	svenska
Thai - Thailand	th-TH	1054	ไทย
Turkish - Türkiye	tr-TR	1055	Türkçe
Ukrainian - Ukraine	uk-UA	1058	українська
Vietnamese - Vietnam	vi-VN	1066	Tiếng Việt

Create content in multiple languages

1. Open the Portal Management app.

2. Go to Website > Content > Web Pages to see a list of content. For each webpage, there will be a parent version of the page and a child version of the page for each language activated for the website.

3. To add a new localization of the page, go to a base page and scroll down to Localized Content.

4. Select + New Web Page on to create a lookup for the localized version.

   

Note

The configuration fields on the home page of a content page is not inherited to the existing content pages. They are used only in creation of new content pages. You must update the content page configurations individually.

Knowledge articles will only be displayed if they've been translated into the language the user sets the website to be displayed in. However, forums and blogs allow for more control over how they're presented in other languages. Specifying a language for a forum or blog is optional. If a language isn't specified, the forum or blog will be displayed in the primary language of the organization. If you want the forum or blog specific to a language, you must create it and assign the language to it.

Web link sets are the navigation links at the top of the portal. In the Portal Management app, go to Content > Web Link Sets to update the translated text of the menu items. When a language is active for the website, a new set of links is created for the newly activated language.

View website in a different language

Once the languages have been enabled, by default, users will see a drop-down on the web pages, which will allow them to switch the currently viewed content to different enabled website languages.

Configure user's default language

To avoid choosing the language from the drop-down each time, website users can set the default language by entering it in the Preferred Language field within the user profile section.

Note

You will need to configure table permissions on the website language table (adx_portallanguage) to allow read and append access linked to the default authenticated user web role to allow for users to choose their default language.