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Tips on using SharePoint in a multilingual environment

The PointFire Blog for Multilingual SharePoint

Join us in Las Vegas
On May 21- 23, 2018, come celebrate the return of the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas!  Co-produced by Microsoft, this event features top names from Microsoft and top experts from the world of SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office 365.

Come visit us, we're at the rightmost entrance to the Marquee ...
17.04.18 04:04 AM - Comment(s)

Spoiler: they do in part, but very very slowly.


SharePoint Online Targeted Release tenants are starting to get the new Hub Sites that were promised last September.

Hub sites are a way to organize different sites together, without a site hierarchy.  Hub sites are just ordinary sites, typ...
28.03.18 01:03 AM - Comment(s)
Code Redundancy in SharePoint Online Software

One of the ways in which writing reliable software for SharePoint Online differs from previous versions of SharePoint is all the extra redundancy that has to be built in.  It's a little like writing software for a space mission, deployed in an environment where it can be subjected to many types...

15.03.18 02:03 PM - Comment(s)
For on-premise SharePoint and to a lesser degree for Classic sites in SharePoint Online, there were several possibilities for language-specific styling.  The page is being displayed in Finnish?  You're going to need more space or smaller print.  Arabic? Things are different in right-t...
14.02.18 05:02 AM - Comment(s)
Do SharePoint Online modern sites support multiple languages?

Usually in SharePoint Online classic sites there are two types of multilingual support.  One is Variations, where you have different sites for different languages and users are sent to one site or the other depending on their language...
10.02.18 04:02 AM - Comment(s)