I have been working in my development machine with a Sharepoint installed in English. So the website I created and am woking on appears in English, I have created variations in different languages too (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician).
Now I realise that the admin part that is in English, should be in Spanish.
I don't know how I could change the language, i have seen the following answer in a forum:
UPDATE dbo.Webs SET Language = 3082
This solves the problem for the language, the admin part of the website appears in Spanish, but when I enter the section of variation labels, it gives me an error.
Can anyone tell me the solution, or which other column in which table must I change (I know it is not recommended)?
Which is the table where it is saved the info about variations?
You should be very careful with modifying the database... not only is it not recommended but it will make your SharePoint environment unsupportable by Microsoft. Good for laughs, not much else.
So to give you the official answer, you cannot do what you are attempting without recreating the website. To quote Deploy language packs (Office SharePoint Server):
...once you choose a language-specific
site template for a site or a site
collection, the site or site
collection will always display content
in the language of the original site
template.
An update with no where clause - you may have just set all your variations to use the same language.
You'll also have the issue that keys get created in English, and after you make the change it searches for the keys in Spanish.
Please have a look at our multilingual solution for MOSS
http://www.alphamosaik.com/Pages/Solutions_EN_MultilingualModule.aspx
Regards
Alphamosaik
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I´m using a TFS 2012 Update 4 (English).
When I´m using the Web Access, the Website is German becaue Auto-Detection (I´m using a German PC).
But this is confusing because the process template is English and so I´m using a German/English mix system.
I can change the language in my personal TFS profil settings to Englisch. That works.
How can I change the language for every user to english?
(Because now every day is somebody asking how to change the browser language to English :D )
Thanks in advance!
The default language is taken from browser preferred language. So if in browser language it is set as German and afterwards English the page will be open as German.
To set preferred language see http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Browser%27s-Language
And to set it to everyone you may try group policy changes if applicable.
Hope this helps.
Erez H
I'm working on a project to create a CMS, which will entail importing a lot of existing content, most of which is static, but in ASP (so they're not all just pure HTML, there are includes and sometimes other server-side code).
We're considering using Umbraco or Sharepoint (2010) for managing the external content, which currently comprises a few thousand pages. I've read this and I think there are good cases to be made for both sides. However, while I've read about the features of adding and managing content, I have not seen anything regarding the importing of existing content into either. And since we have a lot of content that will have to be imported, the ability of either CMS to facilitate this will be a major factor in the decision.
I'd like to know if anyone has any experience trying to import a lot of content into either Umbraco or Sharepoint, or if you have any idea how I might go about doing that. Is it easy for either? Are there plug-ins I can find, or scripts I can write? Or will I pretty much have to import each existing file manually with either CMS?
If you have experience with Umbraco or Sharepoint and have any ideas about this, I would value your input and/or recommendations.
Are you just using SharePoint as a CMS? IMHO whilst SharePoint can be used as a CMS that is not where its real strengths lie - its more suited to Intranet/Portals/Collaboration tools.
I am sure someone will be on in a minute with links to SharePoint showcase sites but the disadvantages :-
Its expensive (even with 'free' WSS
version you need Internet connector
license) + windows licenses.
The
markup can be fairly 'heavy' and
difficult to customise (tables galore in 2007
and javascript files measured in
hundreds of kb)
Questionable cross
browser functionality in 2007
Relatively poor 'website' features e.g. blogging engine as compared to some dedicated CMS's
Basically - if all you are after is a CMS then perhaps there are better options?
(I should say that I think that in an Intranet/Portal setting SharePoint is brilliant, frustrating sometimes for sure, but brilliant).
I cannot speak for SharePoint but I have had to import content from a MS Content Management Server 2002 database into Umbraco.
Umbraco is very extensible and I was able to build a dashboard component that allowed me to do this.
It effectively examined the MSCMS channels and postings and recreated the structure using Umbraco document types. It was very much working at the API level but I would say the learning curve wasn't too steep and Umbraco documentation has come on leaps and bounds over the last two years.
There is also the possiblity that someone has already written a package to do what you need to do so it is worth checking out the community at http://our.umbraco.org.
Hi I don't know Sharepoint but I build a package for Umbraco which can help you importing data from other systems into Umbraco. In the way you dewscribe it you could export your site to a file format using the HTML Agility pack and then use my tool www.cmsimport.com to import the data into Umbraco.
Hope this helps,
Richard
I haven't done any Sharepoint but I've imported content into Umbraco and found it very flexible.
I imported data from a database and created doctypes and custom datatypes in Umbraco then created and populated umbraco documents with code like this:
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
...
DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias("myDoc");
Document doc = Document.MakeNew(name, dt, user, parentId);
doc.getProperty("whatever").Value = getWhateverXML();
doc.Save();
I recently started at a new job where I'll be working with Sharepoint 2010 to set up (or actually upgrade) an intranet. Unfortunately, I have no experience with SP2010, and the last time I touched SP2007 (or a virtual server for that matter) was four years ago.
I'll be attending a course soon, but until then I have to make myself useful. I've already managed to install a working Sp2010 server and have played around with some web applications and site collections, and trying to find out how Sharepoint Designer works, but I don't really have an idea what I'm doing or what goals I should set for myself to actually learn useful stuff.
I've also watched some tutorials, but most are really problem-specific (problems I don't have yet) or dive into the code (which I won't, probably).
So.. where to start?
There are a lot of great training videos on Channel9.
Sahil Malik's book is organized as what are the basic things all SharePoint 2010 developers need to know. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-SharePoint-2010-Solutions-Professionals/dp/1430228652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283973447&sr=8-1
It is a good place to start.
I would suggest video tutorials because:
They are FREE!
They give you more context than just reading what to do.
A quick search will get you specific topics.
Check out Bing videos on SharePoint 2010. There's lots of great content out there to get you going fast.
when i started with SP2010, i began by searching:
New features in Lists and Document
Libraries New search capabilities
DocumentSets (they are very interesting!)
Office Web Apps (Excel and Word web access)
A little bit of FAST Search Engine
Integration with silverlight
Changes in the object model
Workflows
New tools in VS2010
(MSDN, codeplex, codeproject, stackoverflow, and several blogs from Sharepoint MVPs are good places to look for)
I don't know if this would help but that's where I started.. if you need specific help you can find several groups in linkedin.. there are a lots of MVPs helping..
Good luck!
I would recommend you to check out the SharePoint guidance on codeplex. It comes with at sample portal application that is explained and with best practices and guidance for creating a SharePoint site. I am sure that this will provider vital information and knowledge for your project.
Kr., Bernd.
Follow the below link to learn sharepoint. It contains sharepoint tutorial videos and all.
http://www.fastsharepoint.com/
Basically i started my sharepoint learning with the following examples:
Create a feature to change site title
Create a feature to change site theme
Create a feature with feature stapling
Create a feature that activates another feature
Create a site through code
Create a list through code
Populate a list with data through code
Create a lookup column in list through code
These are the basic examples that you can understand what is Sharepoint as a beginner.
Please see the below link for more beginner programs:
http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Downloads/SharePoint-Tutorials.aspx
Litso install a dev box on you machine and get started.
Try doing some migration from one server to the other.
There is an existing app in MOSS, which allows to create polls for a call center, operators fill them out as they call targeted customers. Then this Web app outputs the results of this poll.
Is it possible to change the interface language of this existing web app? Operators don't understand English. If it's not about language packs, it would still be easier for me to embed new names and labels, rather than rewrite in a system I am not familiar with.
Also, is it possible to change the authentication type from Windows authentication to regular username/password check (username and password will be stored in DB or somewhere only for this site)
If it is possible, can you direct me to some kind of tutorial, help or manual which would show how to do it?
On MSDN it's written that language can't be changed, but I'm not sure whether it's about the Web app language.
Thank you.
Have a look at chapter 4 in our free SharePoint Development Guidelines.
I have no mutch idea about web app language
But I shall share you the links for sql authentication
http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/06/14/1617.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/moss_enableforms.aspx
For SharePoint it is possible to create different web's in different languages. Not that i know you could use one web in different languages.
But, it may be funny or not, a crazy idea or not, but could work: before dumping rendered contents to user, maybe you could extract text values excluding form values, post them to Google or Bing translator and put back translated values? You can override global.asax file and use PreSendRequestContent to modify contents just before they are sent to client.
If your company is not huge and it's an intranet page, then, althought slower, but it could work. Better than nothing.
PreSendRequestContent. This event
signals that content is about to be
sent to the client. This provides an
opportunity to modify the content
before it is sent.
I've started using MOSS 2007's wiki feature for storing the ongoing technical documentation related to a project I'm working on, and it occurred to me after I started writing a few pages that there's no easy way to export out all of the pages into one document.
For those of you familiar with MOSS 2007, any ideas how this might be accomplished?
In the past I've created a site feature that exports SharePoint content to PDF and HTML but that was for publishing sites. I assume it needs some rewriting to make it working with the Wiki.
It basically iterates through the navigation of a site and all it's sub sites and reads all the pages stored in the "pages" document library. For each page it then extracts the content using XSLT.
Let me know whether I shall make the source somewhere available.
Cheers,
Michael
You should be able to create a view that shows the content for all of the wiki articles. It's not pretty; you'll get one really long web page. I don't have sharepoint up and running right now to tell you the exact steps, but I have done it before.
BlueRidge has an extension that allows you to export to PDF, but at 640+ euro it's a tad pricey.
You could copy/paste your content into your desired document. It's not convenient but it is a potential work around.
I am also after a solution for this. We have a multilevel Wiki content that follows a levelling structures. Can we automatically export the MOSS Wiki content to a more structured database such as Excel, Access, or XML?