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You could, for example, create a SharePoint Portal Server site that accommodates
a user whose preferred language is English and a user whose preferred language
is Italian. Both users have an area on the portal site that provides content and
navigation bars in his or her preferred language. This user experience is provided by
creating one portal area (called the TOP area) and two subareas (English and Italiano).
Security features are used to grant access to a specific subarea to a specific
user only; in that subarea, Web Parts and navigation bars are customized to provide,
as much as possible, content in the user’s preferred language.
The content itself is in a Windows SharePoint Services site which, using the
language template feature, is completely in the user’s preferred language. These
sites are connected, one for each language, to each area; portal listings are used to
target the site content to the specific area.
Audiences are used to duplicate Web Parts in the TOP area to provide the
(translated) Web Part to the right user. Audiences are also used to target portal listings
so that users can add links to content on SharePoint sites to the TOP area.
Finally, two search scopes are defined to provide users with the ability to
search content in their area (and sites) only.
To set up this solution, follow these steps:
1. Create a global group for the primary language of your user community, and
add the appropriate users. For example, your English users would have a
group called EnglishLanguage, and your Japanese users would have a group
called JapaneseLanguage. Follow this pattern for all the languages used in your
environment.
2. Add the users as readers in the portal site by navigating to the Site Settings
page and clicking the Manage Users link in the General Settings section.
3. Specify the content that will be displayed for each language group by creating
audiences for each language-specific global group you’ve created. Complete
this task by clicking the Manage Audiences link on the User Profile, Audiences,
And Personal Sites section of the Site Settings page.
4. Verify that the appropriate users have appropriate membership by clicking the
View Audiences link on the Manage Audiences page, clicking the arrow that
appears next to your audience’s description, and then clicking the View Membership
link.
5. Create a top-level area that will contain all other language-specific subareas,
and then create a subarea for each language by using the Actions list on the
portal page, and clicking Create Subarea.
6. Customize the top-level area and each language subarea by creating Web Parts
and configuring them to be viewable based on language-specific global
groups.