Someone should put together a quick guide for doing this in DNN 6.  Or previous versions for that matter.  I am a little confused as to what the best mix is between DNN built in localization, 3rd party content localization and 3rd party menu/tab localization.  It seems like you'd want to have localization enabled in DNN, but use a language neutral page, with menu/tab and content localization modules so that you don't have to manage separate pages for each language?  What is the best approach?  Pros / cons?  And if take the approach mentioned, how do you have menus/tabs/pages show up only for specific languages?

I am talking about purely customer facing pages here, I understand how localization works with the UI.

Can anyone help?

Core solution for localized pages might be preferred, if you want to merge more or less independent sites per language, but if you want the same structure in all languages, modules supporting multilanguage natively are required. btw: Solutions like Apollo Page Localization or Locopon DSLocalizator do support suppressing languages or modules per language.

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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Thank you for you feedback Sebastian and Stéphane.

I have been trying to get up to date by absorbing lots of info from the "language and Internationalization" forum, I found lots of it in the "Localization DNN and the future" thread. Great info from many big names such as Sebastian.

These all made me want to give DSLocalizator a chance. I've installed version 3.0.5 of this module in my 5.6.2 DNN. Install went fine. But I get an error when I place the DSTabLocalizator module on a page.

Is there something basic I'm missing ? Here is the error:

Error: Localization is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: The stored procedure 'dbo.Delisoft_TabLocalization_OptionsGet' doesn't exist. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: The stored procedure 'dbo.Delisoft_TabLocalization_OptionsGet' doesn't exist. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.DeriveParameters() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters(SqlCommand command) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.DiscoverSpParameterSet(SqlConnection connection, String spName, Boolean includeReturnValueParameter, Object[] parameterValues) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.GetSpParameterSetInternal(SqlConnection connection, String spName, Boolean includeReturnValueParameter) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.GetSpParameterSet(String connectionString, String spName, Boolean includeReturnValueParameter) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteReader(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at Delisoft.DNN.Modules.DSLocalizator.Data.SqlDataProvider.GetTabLocalization_Options(Int32 portalId) at Delisoft.DNN.Modules.DSLocalizator.Business.TabLocalization_OptionsController.Get(Int32 portalId) at Delisoft.DNN.Modules.DSLocalizator.UI.DSTabLocalizator.LoadDetectionBehaviorSettings() at Delisoft.DNN.Modules.DSLocalizator.UI.DSTabLocalizator.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

I'm trying to find some answers on Locopon's Forums, but I keep getting timeout errors.
Any pointer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bernard