{"id":5678,"date":"2017-05-25T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2020-07-07T07:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:42:34","slug":"enable-multiple-languages-on-microsoft-dynamics-365-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/enable-multiple-languages-on-microsoft-dynamics-365-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Multiple Languages on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Microsoft Portals can be used to surface data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement for an external audience.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Portal provide various pre-configured templates for Customer Portal, Partner Portal, and Employee portal amongst others.<\/p>\n

Recently the portals were extended to provide Multi-language support, and here we cover the steps to enable multiple languages for the portal.<\/p>\n

Steps to enable multiple languages on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

1.<\/strong> You first need to ensure the language has been enabled for your CRM application. To enable a language, go to the Setting>Administration>Languages<\/em><\/strong>, select the language and click on \u2018Apply\u2019<\/em><\/strong> as shown in the screenshot below;<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Next, we will enable the languages for the Portal. Navigate to Portals>Website>Websites<\/em><\/strong>. Under the General tab, in the \u2018Supported Languages\u2019<\/em><\/strong> section, click the \u2018+\u2019<\/strong> button as shown in the screenshot below;<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Fill the fields as shown in the screenshot below;<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

Portal Language:<\/strong> Select the language that you want to include support for.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Note: Currently 43 languages are supported out of the box. To know more about languages supported in Dynamics 365, go to Portals>Content>Portal Languages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Make sure the Publishing state is \u201cPublished\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> You can see the list of \u2018Supported Language\u2019<\/em><\/strong> for the Website as shown in the screenshot below;<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> With the language support added, you will notice that it has automatically created Web Link Sets for the navigation records for each of the enabled languages.<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

Open each of the Link Sets and update the text as required for the specified language.<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> Next is to update the content of the pages for this navigate to Portals>Web Pages<\/em><\/strong>. Here for each web page, there will be a Parent Page. Create localization for each language activated for the portal (Currently we have enabled the English and French language for the portal).<\/p>\n

To add a new localization on the page for activated language, open the page and scroll down to \u2018Localized Content\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Click on the \u2018+\u2019<\/strong> button on the right side as shown in the screenshot below;<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

You need to modify the content for the specified language manually as shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a>7.<\/strong> With these changes, your portal is now multi-language compatible. Navigating to the website will automatically display a drop-down for language selection as shown below<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a>8.<\/strong> When the user selects \u2018French\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, then the content will be displayed in the French language as provided in the Web Links and Web Pages;<\/p>\n

\"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

You now have an easily configurable multi-language supportive Portal that is managed completely from within Dynamics CRM without requiring to write any line of code.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the roadmap for Dynamics 365 Portals click here<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction: Microsoft Portals can be used to surface data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement for an external audience. Microsoft Portal provide various pre-configured templates for Customer Portal, Partner Portal, and Employee portal amongst others. Recently the portals were extended to provide Multi-language support, and here we cover the steps to enable multiple languages for\u2026 Read More: Enable Multiple Languages on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,37,2053],"tags":[324,1223,1225],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customizations","category-dynamics-365","category-microsoft-portals","category-power-apps-portals","tag-configure-multiple-languages-in-dynamics-365-portals","tag-multi-language-capabilities-in-dynamics-365-portal","tag-multi-language-suppot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t