Two components within the Design Package must contain special tags in order to support multi-language functionality.
There is a new menu that can be added to page templates. This menu displays bidirectional links between associated translation pages. For example your English page and your French page would both contain links to each other so that you can quickly view the page associated with the page you are viewing.
To add the language menu to a page template, add an tag as follows:
< ironpoint> languagemenu</ ironpoint>
In order to control the formatting and style of the new language menu, copy your SectionMenuData.xml file to a new LanguageMenuData.xml file. You can then optionally edit the LanguageMenuData.xml file to alter how the menu items appear. The LanguageMenuData.xml file permits the same functionality for the language menu as that permitted for the section menu. Refer to the ACTIVE Content Manager Design Guide for more information on working with xml files.
Important points to keep in mind:
If there are more than two sites in the translation set, you will get a drop-down menu when you click on the link.
The links only appear if the linked pages have both been published.
If you emergency publish and break the link to the associated page, the button will not be displayed.
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