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Tips on using SharePoint in a multilingual environment

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Trick to Uncripple Teams Private Channel Sites
Here is a trick that I never realized was not common knowledge. When you create a private channel in Teams, its SharePoint site can’t add certain apps, both custom apps and standard ones, including Calendar and Tasks.
27.04.23 01:20 PM - Comment(s)

It started with an intermittent problem from a client.  In some cases their users were being prompted to download a JavaScript file that had our product's name somewhere in the file name.


That file was a localization file that SPFx uses.  When you create an SPFx webpart or application custo...
12.11.20 01:11 AM - Comment(s)

SharePoint's API has gone through several iterations, from the 2010 API, to the 2013 API, and now Graph API.  Throughout, it has struggled with being language-independent, particularly when dealing with lists and libraries.  Everything works fine when the site is in English and the user's ...

20.09.20 04:09 AM - Comment(s)

When SharePoint 2019 was first released, its Machine Translation Service did not work.  The service could be installed and was running, but most attempts to use of it would result in the error message "The service application required to complete this request is unavailable. Try this ...

13.08.20 03:08 AM - Comment(s)

The new multilingual page publishing feature for Modern sites is now available in Targeted Release.  This is a good time to go through its main features in a bit more detail.

This SharePoint Online feature enables the publishing and consumption of pages and news in multiple languages in a modern...

17.03.20 08:03 AM - Comment(s)