Languages

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Important

An administrator (and developers with administration access rights) enables content languages.

To set the CMS (SaaS) user interface language, see Set a personal language preference in Get started with CMS (SaaS).

Editors can create content in a language after you activate it and set an access level for a language to authorize editors to create or edit pages in that language.

When an editor copies a page, language versions are copied regardless of the editor's language rights. This means that if an editor with access rights to English only copies a page that exists in English and French and pastes that somewhere, both language versions are copied.

Go to Settings > Languages. The installed website languages display.

You can complete the following:

• Sort by click on the Name, Language Code, or Sort Index column heading.
• See which languages are turned on for active editing with a checkmark in the Available column.
• Adjust the order of the languages by changing the sort index number in the language settings.

To change a language's settings, click its name.

Add languages

Before an editor can edit content in different languages, you need to add and turn on the languages in the admin view and then turn them on for editing in the CMS edit view.

1. Go to Settings > Languages.

2. Click Add Languages to add a language. You can start typing in the Search box to filter languages.

   

3. Click Add Languages to add them to the languages list.

4. Click a language to edit its settings.

   

   • Name –  Enter a name for that language to be shown in the edit view. The field contains the name of the language encoding, but you can change this if you want.

   • Template icon – Enter the relative path to an icon symbolizing the language.

   • URL slug – Provide a specific prefix to show the content of the relevant language. If you do not provide a prefix, the language code is used, such as www.company.com/nl.

   • Sort Index – Enter a number to indicate what precedent this language has.

   • Available – Select if you want to turn on the language to be active for editing in edit view. This option also affects whether the language is available to website visitors. A disabled language is not visible in the edit view. Existing content in that language is still accessible but cannot be edited.

   • Add User/Group –  Select to define which editor groups have access to create and edit content in this language (see below). When you add a language, it is available for the Everyone group by default. 

     An editor's create and edit access rights to content and language determine which actions the editor can perform on the content. This means that an editor must have edit access for a specific language and a specific item to edit the content in that language.

     When a language has Everyone as access rights, access rights for an item apply to all languages. This also means that an editor with delete access rights for content can delete an entire node with content in all languages, including content in languages to which the editor does not have access.

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     Note

     Removing the Everyone group in a certain language may cause some editors to lose their access rights to create and edit content in that language.

5. Click Save.

Turn on a global language

1. Go to Settings > Languages.
2. Click the desired language in the list.
3. Select Available and click Save.

Search results in different languages

CMS (SaaS) works with Optimizely Graph to deliver search results for up to 33 supported language locales. See Supported locales with language analysis.

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Note

Editors can create content in any of the 790 possible languages in CMS Settings by making those languages Available in their instance. Many languages are regional variations of a single language. For example, English exists in more than 100 variants.

Consider a search for the word "world" on a page that is translated into Swedish, English, and Akan. Optimizely Graph can search all three translated pages and find "world" in all three translations.

However, because Optimizely Graph does not have a language analyzer for Akan it cannot find the plural of the search term ("worlds"), but can find "worlds" in the Swedish and English translated pages with their language analyzers.

Remove an existing language

Remove a language from the website by opening the language settings and clearing the Available option.