Dynamics 365 Portals can be configured to display content using multiple languages. Currently 43 languages are supported out of the box and additional languages can also be configured. In this article, I will walk you through the steps to configure the portal to include new language.
Add Record to Supported Languages
First step is to associate a supported language with the Website record.
Navigate to Portals > Websites. Open the Website record to be configured.
Click on the + button above the Supported Languages sub grid.
This will open a new form to create a Website Language record. Type the language you would like to configure in the Portal Language lookup field. In this example, I will add German language. Select the language from the list.
Note: There’s a bug in Dynamics 365 where no records will be displayed in the lookup. Please see below article which describes a workaround.
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Select the Publishing State as Published. Click Save and Close.
A new Supported Language is now added to the list.
This action will trigger background processes which creates new records for the given language. For example, Web Link Sets, Web Pages will be created automatically. We would need to update the content of each of the records but most of hard work is done for us.
Let’s configure a page to display relevant content in multiple languages. In this example, I will configure the Knowledge Base Home page.
Configure Localized Web Page
Navigate to Portals > Web Pages and open the Knowledge Base Home Web Page. You’ll notice, there’s new sub grid called Localized Content. Open the German Knowledge Base Home Web Page.
Copy the existing text, which is in English, and used Bing Translator to translate it to German.
https://www.bing.com/translator
Copy the German text and paste it to Copy (HTML) field.
Restart Portal
Restart the Portal. Below article explains the steps.
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Let’s navigate to Knowledge Base Home page. You’ll notice on the URL the en-US language tag. You can change the language using the Language selector.
Let’s select German (Deutsch). You’ll notice the URL’s language tag changed to de-DE and content changed to German.
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