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Warning

After careful consideration, Language Switch for Confluence will be retired and archived on the Atlassian Marketplace on August 25, 2023. Current customers and evaluators were informed of this change on May 25, 2023. Please contact our support team if you have any questions.



The Language Switch for Confluence helps  allows you to manage multiple versions of pages and spaces using with a single switch button.You only need to define a page tag in each of the pages with related

Features (tick)

  • Use the new Language Switch Wizard (v3) to link or create pages with similar content or structure
,
  • so that the app can
recognize
  • recognise and link the
equivalent
  • corresponding pages. You can also go the traditional route and use a page label to link to the appropriate page language.
  • The
switch buttons let you shift
  •  Switch Buttons make it easier to switch from one page/space version to another
more efficiently
  • . These can be freely
placed
  • positioned in
different
  • many predefined Confluence locations
of Confluence
  • or easily configured using CSS.
  • Avoid the hassle
of
  • of manually recreating similar Confluence pages/spaces and searching for its other related versions
by installing Language Switch
  • . The page label
informs you of
  • indicates which version of the page or space you are in and
allows
  • helps you to create or
find
  • locate sibling pages or related versions of the original page.
 

Get started

Concept

Language Switch operates on

2

two concepts:

  • The Switch buttons
that
  • will display all versions of a page or a space you have created and would like to manage.
 
  • The Language Switch wizard (v3) or Confluence labels you attach to each page or space version that indicate both the relationship and
difference
  • differences amongst areas.
 

Label definition

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 do the Space Configuration that we support 2 Languages, in this case we use English (en) and German (de).

Navigate to General configuration -> Section: Look and Feel -> Language Switch and create the Space Configuration as follows:

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If you navigate to any Pages in a Space, you will find the Language Switch in the Header Toolbar.

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You can customize the position of the buttons perfectly integrated into the Confluence look and feel.

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Configure Pages for the Language Switch

for your Example, we will create Products Pages in German and English and we will use as Page Identifier products.

First we prepare the English Page:

  1. Create a new Page Products
  2. Add a Label page_products_en to mark this Page as Language English with Page Identifier products.

Then we create the German Page:

  1. Create a new Page Produkte
  2. Add a Label page_products_de to mark this Page as Language German with Page Identifier products.

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Check-out more Use Cases

Perform the following steps to create two related Pages with two different configured Languages:

  1. Set Default Global Space Configuration: To configure go to General configuration > Language Switch. For more information, see Configuration.

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       2. Set Default Configuration in Space Level: To configure go to Space Tools > Look and Feel > Language Switch. For more information, see Configuration.

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       3. Configure Pages for Language Switch.

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.


Configure Pages Using Language Switch Wizard (v3)

Perform the following to configure pages using Language Switch wizard:

  1. Create the new page in the English Space or you can choose existing page.

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      2. Click …> Language Switch. The Corresponding Language Pages window is displayed.

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You need to configure the languages in the Global Configuration. For more information, see Configuration.

                           

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      3. Click + icon and specify the Location of the draft page.

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      4. Click the Create button. A new draft page is created and opened automatically.


Using page Labels

Perform the following to create label:

  1. Create a new page or to add label(s) to existing page go to Edit mode.

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      3. Type the name that you want to label the page. 

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      4. (Optional) Click Add to add another label.

      5. Click Close.

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For example:

To identify the pages with different language (English en, German de) with the name of the page as Products. The label can be specified as follows:

  • With Page Identifier products, add a Label page_products_en to mark this page as English.
  • With Page Identifier products, add a Label page_products_de to mark this page as language German.

Check-out more Use Cases to better understand the power of Language Switch.

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