Language Switch for Confluence helps you manage multiple versions of pages and spaces using a single switch button.
Use the new Language Switch Wizard (v3) to link or create new page with related content or structure, so the app can recognize and link the equivalent pages. Or you can use the traditional way using page label to link to the corresponding page language.
The switch buttons let you shift from one page/space version to another more efficiently. These can be freely placed in different predefined locations of Confluence or easily configured using CSS.
Avoid the hassle of manually recreating similar Confluence pages/spaces and searching for its other related versions by installing Language Switch. The page label informs you of which version of the page or space you are in and allows you to create or find sibling pages or related versions of the original page.
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Concept
Language Switch operates on 2 concepts:
- Switch buttons that display all versions of a page or a space you have created and would like to manage.
- Language Switch Wizardwizard (v3) or Confluence labels you attach to each page or space version that indicate both the relationship and difference amongst areas.
Label definition
Use the new Language Switch Wizard wizard (v3) to link or create new pages which automatically creates page labels seamlessly.
The Language Switch is using Confluence labels to identify the language of the page and the related pages in other languages.
This example provides a simple How-To Guide to create 2 related Pages with 2 configured Languages.
First, we configure the space to support two languages, in this case English (en) and German (de).
Navigate to General configuration -> Section: Look and Feel -> Language Switch and create the Space Configuration as follows:
Then, for English (en) and German (de), we create or use two existing Spaces and configure the Default Language for each.
Navigate to Space → Space Tools → Section: Look and Feel → Langue Language Switch and configure the corresponding Language for the Space as follows:
The Language Switch can be found in the Header Toolbar if you navigate to any Pages in a Space.
You can customize the position of the buttons perfectly integrated into the Confluence look and feel.
Configure Pages for the Language Switch
Language Switch offers two methods for creating language pages:
- To simplify and streamline the corresponding language pages, use the Language Switch Wizard, which was introduced in Version 3.0.
- Using Page Labels: this is the traditional method for linking the corresponding language to the page. This gives you complete control over the label naming.
For example, we will create Product Pages in both German and English.
Using Language Switch Wizard (v3)
First we prepare the English Page:
- Create the new Page Products in the English Space.
- Open the Language Switch wizard.
Then we use the Language Switch Wizard to create the German Draft Page based on the English Page Version
- Click the + button on the German row.
- Search for the Location in the German Space where the new Draft Page should be created.
- Click the Create button to create the new Draft Page based on the english Products Page. This will automatically open the confluence Editor.
For the full functionality of the Language Switch Wizard, check out the Documentation.
Using page Labels
We will use as Page Identifier products.
Perform the following to prepare an english Page:
- Create a new Page Products
- Add a Label
page_products_ento mark this Page as Language English with Page Identifier products.
Then, perform the following to create german Page:
- Create a new Page Produkte
- Add a Label
page_products_deto mark this Page as Language German with Page Identifier products.
Check-out more Use Cases to better understand the power of Language Switch.