Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Create a variation site in SharePoint 2010

Follow these steps to create a variation enabled site collection.

Step 1:
Install language packs for SharePoint ,you can download the language packs by click here 
NOTE: for windows 7 users follow these additional steps to set up Language packs
 
Step2:
Create the Variation Source site
This is the site collection which is going to hold the variation (sub) sites.

Step3:
Go to Site Action - > Site settings- > Under Site Collection Administration - > Variation
Set the variation Home (Starting location where variations of this site will be created. Variations of this site will include the site and all subsites)

Step 4:
 Go to Site Action - > Site settings- > Under Site Collection Administration - >Variation Labels - >New Label
In here you have to create the variation labels (e.g. En-US,Fr-FR)

Tick the "Set this variation to be the source variation" check box if you want to set this as a source variation site.
Source site is the site  which will propagate any contents to the target sites.
Repeat step 4 to create any amount of target labels.
Note: You can create only one source label.

Step 5:
Go to Site Action - > Site settings- > Under Site Collection Administration - >Variation Labels - > press Create Hierarchies
Press OK 
 
Step 6:
Go to Central Administration click on Monitoring tab - >Under Timer jobs click Review job definitions
Select the Variation create hierarchy job definition

Press Run Now

If variation site is successfully created Hierarchy created column will be indicate as Yes


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