Hi all,
When I translate a site to German, I don’t know where the translated pages have gone to.
When my client’s site was set up, the ISP (a well-known DNN ISP) set up the English (GB) site as default in blue, as well as a German site. The German site has just one page in a different colour (brown) to distinguish it. DNN Version is 06.01.04.
I’ve followed the instructions in the online manual, as well as 2 others I downloaded – Dotnetnuke 6.1.4 User Manual.pdf and Dotnetnuke 6.1.4 Super User Manual.pdf.
The Home Page address for the English site is www.[SiteName].com/en-gb/home/aspx. The Home Page address for the German site is www.[SiteName].com/de/home/aspx.
This is what I have done:
Install language pack – ISP guys did that for me at setup time.
Allow content localisation: http://hive.dotnetnuke.com/Default.as... done.
Enabling Localised content: http://hive.dotnetnuke.com/Default.as...  Done.
Translating a page: http://hive.dotnetnuke.com/Default.as...  Done.
Setting a page as Translated: http://hive.dotnetnuke.com/Default.as...  Done. NOTE this page of the online manual ends unexpectedly like this: Next Step: If this page is now ready to publish live on your site, (???Nothing more...?????)

So I went back to the DNN614 User Manual.PDF, which says "Publishing localised content" (page 1211), navigate to Admin > Languages. In the Culture grid, go to the Content Localization - Publish column.
Click the Publish Pages button. This displays the message "All translated pages in the German - Germany language have been published."
I get the above message allright - but again, when I click the German flag, all I get is the crappy brown page again.
The pages are there somewhere – If I follow the e-mail link (Pages ready for Translation), I do get to the pages and I am able to edit them.

Obviously I've missed something... Could one of you guys perhaps help with a bit of advice?

The ISP Support says: “One of our operations team looked into this for you and has confirmed that the German content needs to be in the German child portal and not on the English site. The German child portal was set up for you during the initial setup of the site including the flag link to it. The reason why it’s brown was to distinguish between the sites for you.”
This confirms my suspicions, but doesn’t provide a solution.

Could this be something to do with the difference between de and de-de? I'm suspecting the German site is at ../de/.. but the translated pages are being sent to .../de-de/... Does that make sense or am I blowing smoke? Where is the destination of translated pages set?

Regards,
Ernie

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for the reply. Yes it looks like takayaking.com has been set up as you say. So this confuses me. What is the point of setting up a child portal as well as installing a language-pack? I think it would have been nice if the ISP had told me installing the language pack is a waste of time/money because it doesn't put the translated site into the child portal. It seems like a case of using one method OR the other, but not both. Is this correct?

So now I'm also confused about the way forward. If I use the language pack features, the German site is contained within the English site - will I be able to translate EVERYTHING, including page headers, module titles etc., or will there be some stuff I can't translate? Also I'll have to change the German flag to point to the translated "site", How do I do that?

The other option is to duplicate the entire site in the child portal, but there will be a heap of stuff I won't be able to translate - such as Login, Logout, date, time etc. How do I do all of that?

Any advice will be welcome.  Regards, ernieb