Dear DNN Team and readers,

I am currently facing lots of difficulties to migrate my DNN 5 bi-lingual website to DNN 7 (http://declic-video-fx.com). I am an amateur doing this for leasure, I can't use lot of money to pay a developper to understand where is the problem and to solve it (I would only have ~50-70$ and I am quite sure it's not sufficient).

With DNN 5, I used some tricks for the bi-lingual content localisation: ML Apollo + DSLocopon Localisator
Unfortunately, they are not working anymore with DNN 7.

I tried to use the core feature: content localisation (enabled in host and then in ADMIN > Languages). When I enable the function, the system starts and duplicate all pages/modules, but it fails before the end (it never end, I tried in DNN 6, in DNN 7). I think it's because I have News Article modules and thousands of articles. One instance did not show errors and finished, but in fact, when I look at the News Article table, it's incomplete (the author was missing for example). It has ~1500 articles to duplicate.

Conclusion: I do not know what to do and I am stucked... If any DNN Corps want to give it a try, I am ready to provide the backup + database, if it may help the community to debug the problem for big website ?

Otherwise, I am thinking of splitting my website into two languages:
fr.declic-video-fx.com
en.declic-video-fx.com
Each one will be a separate DNN instance (I could restore my current website into each instance, and suppress the language which is not used).

Do you think it's feasible ? How would I do that ?

Thanks a lot for your help, I am a NON IT professionnal, just a simple amateur playing with IT technologies (maybe DNN has a too high level for me ?... So far it went well)

DV FX

Thanks a lot for answering. You have ALL my interest. I am stopped right  now and without solution, just crying ... :-(

- I already have french and english language pack activated
- I am already translating each article (french / english). You can have an overview on my current alive website (http://declic-video-fx.com) : change language with the flag at the right. The only problem so far: when you read an article and when you switch language, you are redirected to the current listing of articles (it does not automatically switch to the corresponding articles). But that's not that critics.
- To do this, I have two News Article Module on the same page, one for FRENCH and another one for ENGLISH. And thanks to DS Localizator, I am hidding the one which does not correspond to the correct locale.

So now, I am ready to try the trick you are proposing, but I need to understand, because I have to admit that the localisation in DNN 7 is quite difficult to understand (I saw Charles video, but that's difficult to understand - I also read DNN Hero video regarding content localization): it's difficult to understand the "Mark as translated", "Ready for translation" (which seems to trigger the duplicata after enabling the content), "Is Translated", etc...

So you said:
* the trick to doing this is to no enable any extra languages when you enable content localization.
>> Can you clarify ? I already have French and English, should I delete one locale ?

* Next step is to set the culture of every page and every module to Null (in the Tabs and TabModules tables). After you recycled the site, you can now activate the extra language.
>> I can do that in the DB, no problem. What do you mean by "activate the extra language" ? Should I first go to HOST > Other Settings > Allow content localisation and ADMIN > Languages > Enable content localisation ?

* Now click the "create translation copies" icon that is available for the extra language. The process will now skip all the pages that have a NULL culture (these are culture invariant pages).
>> Where do I find the "create translation copies" ? Do you mean Page Settings > Ready for Translation ?

Thanks for clarifying, then I will try what you propose, I am very very interested...
What I need, in fact, is the following:
* on the page, I have the two modules (the one for french and the one for english).
* I need that the system duplicate the modules on the page FR and EN (without creating a new module ID). Then, I will delete the copy on each page for the selected locale. Currently, I can't do that because it creates a copy when I enable the content localisation.

I believe that your solution will work, I think that this "NULL" page which avoid that it duplicates it will help me !! But I have not understood everything.
Thanks for your help, thanks so much Erik !!!

DV FX

To summarize what I would like to do:

Screen capture of my DNN 5 migrated to DNN 7 before enabling the localisation content.

Screen capture of what I had yesterday when trying to put some module in FR page and EN page (I am unable to put the EN Tips &Tricks in ENGLISH page and FR Trucs & Astuces in the FRENCH page)....

I am quite sure that you trick to put a NULL value should solve the automatic copy which create a duplicata of my module, and which fails the migration... I sincerely hope that you can pass by to explain what you said previously. I have a DNN 7 ready  to test what you said, I will record (video) what I do, so you can tell me what is wrong.

Thanks so much,
DV FX