Assuming you want to offer your website in english and in french. You define two root pages ("en" and "fr"), one for each language, and under each of these page, you create the site structure.
Initial redirection
When a user accesses www.yourdomain.com, the extensions will do the following:
- detect supported language of the current portal by looking at root pages (in this case, en and fr)
- detect the user's browser languages and keep the first one that is supported by the current portal
- if it can't find a suitable preferred language, use the portal default language
- redirect the user to the first child page of the selected language (it will redirect for instance to "en/Home.aspx")
Navigation Menus
By default, DNN will show the root language pages ("en" and "fr") in root menus. To create a page hierarchy that corresponds to current language (pages under the current root language page), the extension uses custom navigation providers.
The extensions comes with support for these navigation controls:
- DNNMenu
- SolpartMenu
- Breadcrumb
If using another menu, you will need to adjust the navigation provider for your specific menu.
Search
By default, DNN will return search results for all pages in the DNN portal. To remove results for languages other than the current language, the extensions uses a custom SearchDataStore.