Create the SharePoint site in different languages using variation

Hello,
Today we will learn how to create the sharepoint site in different languages.
Using variation concept in sharepoint we can create sites in different languages without installation of different Sharepoint versions.
Variation concept is best suitable for the publishing sites and pages.


So first downloads the desired languages packs from the microsoft sites.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3411


To check how many language pack is installed at your server have the differnt ways.
One way is to check the language options by go to your site
Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section ->click on Create Variaion Label





And find the language section as shown below here i have installed total two Finnish and Swedish.

when there is no sharepoint language pack installed in the server you cant find the to select the language option inside the SharePoint.

Now we are going to install the language packs.

Once the language pack is being installed run the Sharepoint 2010 Products Configuration wizards.

Perform the necessary steps from Sharepoint 2010 Products Configuration wizards.

Here I assumed that you have already having the publishing website available.

Now we are creating the variation sites.

so for that go to the Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section ->click on Variations link as shown first screen shot.

Apply the changes as shown below and then click OK.

So we have done the settings of the top-level Web site of the site collection, by type a slash (/).Now the next task is to create the variation label of different sites.so for that go to the Site Action -> Site Settings ->Go to the Site Collection Administration section - > click on Create Variation Label->You can give give the appropriate label for the language as seen below

Language Name	Culture Name	Locale ID
Arabic	ar-sa	1025
Bulgarian	bg-bg	1026
Catalan	ca-es	1027
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-cn	2052
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)	zh-tw	1028
Croatian	hr-hr	1050
Czech	cs-cz	1029
Danish	da-dk	1030
Dutch	nl-nl	1043
English	en-us	1033
Estonian	et-ee	1061
Finnish	fi-fi	1035
French	fr-fr	1036
German	de-de	1031
Greek	el-gr	1032
Hebrew	he-il	1037
Hindi	hi-in	1081
Hungarian	hu-hu	1038
Italian	it-it	1040
Japanese	ja-jp	1041
Kazakh	kk-kz	1087
Korean	ko-kr	1042
Latvian	lv-lv	1062
Lithuanian	lt-lt	1063
Norwegian (Bokmål)	nb-no	1044
Polish	pl-pl	1045
Portuguese (Brazil)	pt-br	1046
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-pt	2070
Romanian	ro-ro	1048
Russian	ru-ru	1049
Serbian (Latin)	sr-latn-cs	2074
Slovak	sk-sk	1051
Slovenian	sl-si	1060
Spanish	es-es	3082
Swedish	sv-se	1053
Thai	th-th	1054
Turkish	tr-tr	1055
Ukrainian	uk-ua	1058

First we are taking english site as a source variation  site and creating first label for the english.
Now give the appropraite name for the label and apply required settings as shown below.

Click ok  , Same way i am creating another label of finnish language.

Now we have created two variation label.
Now we are creating the variaiton hierarchies so for that go to the Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section ->click on Create Variaion Label ->then click on create variation Hierarchy.

So after that the Timer Job will execute to create the hierarchies it will take some times if you want the quicker result then you need to manually execute the timer job.

For that Go to the central administration site , Select Monitoring from the left panel -> Now select the Review job definitions.You will find the below screen.Now select your web application and click on the below links and run it as now for all the five links.So timer job will execute and it will create the hierarchy.

You can check the whether the variation is successfully created or not using the varation log by go to the
Site Action - >Site Settings -> Go to the Site Collection Administration section -> Click on the  Variation Log

Once the staus is successfully created the hierarchy you can find the both the variation sites en-us and fi-fi

Regards

Hiren Patel