Localizing your navigation in SharePoint Online
requires a lot of patience, because changing
your language requires a lot of patience.
This is a scenario for one type of navigation,
Quick Launch navigation. It will also work
for for things like Hub site navigation and
Mega-menu navigation, but not for others,
Managed Navigation for example.
- Create your navigation by clicking on
"Edit" next to the navigation menu, then
changing the link address (if any) and the
Display name of each item and click OK
- Don't forget to click "Save"
- For each language of the site,
- Change your language using the
normal method of
changing
your SharePoint Language, or the
instant language toggle trick
- Click on "Edit" next to the
navigation menu
- For each navigation label that is
not already translated,
- change the Display name to the
one that is correct for that
language. It looks like it is
overwriting the original in the
original language, but it is not
- Do NOT change the URL.
That will
overwrite the original. You
can change the text in other
languages, but not the URL.
- Don't forget to click "Save"
- Do this for every type of navigation
- Try to change your language to check
that it works correctly in all languages
Localizing your SharePoint Online
navigation with PointFire 365
is much easier
- Click on PointFire 365 then click on
"Translate the Interface"
- Click on "1" then click on "2" then
click on "3"
- No step 3, you have just translated all
the types of navigation in all languages.
You have also translated list and library
names, columns, content types, titles,
descriptions, etc, whatever can be
localized.
- If you want, between clicking on "2" and
"3" you can edit all the translations using
Quick edit view.
This works on modern SharePoint sites and
classic SharePoint sites, and you can easily
build multilingual Communication sites.
With PointFire, all your users and content are on the same site. Two different users going to the same URL will each see it in their own language. It works with every version of SharePoint Online and of SharePoint on premise, with optional machine translation.
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