How to configure multilingual site: variation in SharePoint 2013/2016/2019

In this post I will quickly walk through steps we used to perform while creating multilingual site in SharePoint 2016. Same steps need to be followed for SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint 2019.

Variation brief:

Variations feature is provided by Microsoft in SharePoint to provide & propagate multilingual content management through SharePoint application. In simple term variation is managed through labels (subsite for each language).

Step 1:

First of all install language pack by downloading it from Microsoft site. Once language pack is installed we will continue to Step 2.

Step 2:

Then under site settings at top level site, under Site Collection Administrator click on variation settings. Most of these setting are self-explanatory and can be changed late on based on customized requirements.

Step 3:

Here we are creating english as root site and choose locale as english as well. Also I choose top level site as source/target level variation.

Step 4:

In this step we would create other labels/variations for required multilingual sites e.g. arabic etc.

I used to allow both human & machine translation and i choose allow automatic update target variation pages

Since variation creation hierarchy is a timer job and if Arabic or other language hierarchy isn't created and we need to do it manually then we need to run it from SharePoint Central Admin -> Monitor -> Review Job Definitions under Time Jobs and click "Variation Create Hierarchy Job Definition" by selecting current web application

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