Translate an existing page

1. You create a new language translation of an existing page in one of the following ways:
   • On Pages page, click the Add link under the respective language icon.
   • Open the page in page editing mode and in the upper-left corner of the page, click the Add link of the respective language.
   • On Pages page, in Languages field on the right, select the desired language and click the name of the page, which you want to translate.
     The name of the page appears inactive, to show that the page has no translation in the selected language.
2. Perform procedure Create a page » Step 3 (only the relevant fields) and Step 4.

   NOTE: When you create a translation of an existing page, the system does not display the Template section. You do not select a layout at this step, but at Step 3 of the current procedure, where you must choose whether you want to use the current template of the page or design a new one, just for this translation.
   Depending on what you select in Step 4 of Creating a new page procedure, perform the following:

   • If you do not select Create and go to add content, the layout of the translated page is not determined until you open the page for editing.
   • If you select Create and return to Pages, skip the rest of this procedure and perform it when you open the translation of the page for editing.
3. Before opening the new page for editing, the system asks you to select one of the following:
   • Copy from another language version
     A window appears where you select Keep all language versions synced as one page checkbox and click Done.
     This means that all created language versions of the page will have the same layout and widgets, but the widgets can be configured differently. Any changes to any of the translations will apply to all other translations.
     After that, every other language translation you create is synchronized with the existing and the system does not ask you, if you want to copy or create a new language translation.

     When you choose this option, when a language translation of the page is opened in page editing mode, the system displays the following in the upper part of the page:

     

     • If you want to stop the synchronization between the different language translations, click Stop syncing.
       After that, you can edit each page translation separately.

       NOTE: Once you stop the synchronization between the different languages, you cannot synchronize them again. You have different versions of one page.

     • To display the icons of all language versions, click Show other translations.
       The icons appear and from there you can add new language translations for this page.
     • NOTE: If you have language versions of a page that are not synchronized and are different, after adding another language from the system settings and creating a new language translation in this language, you can choose if you want the new translation to have the same layout and widgets as some of the existing translations. In this case, if you have more than one existing translations, the dropdown box is active and you can choose an already existing language version.
     • NOTE: Syncing of translations does not depend on page hierarchy. You can have a parent page whose translations are not synced, but the translations of its child pages can by synced.
   • Start from scratch
     Click this link, if you want the different language translations to have different layouts and status.
   • The language translation of the page is created and the system opens the page in content editing mode.
4. Use the content editing mode to customize the layout of the page, add content by adding widgets, and apply themes.
   For more information, see Design a layout template, Add widgets on pages and templates, and Apply a template to a page.

   NOTE: If your pages are synchronized, any modifications to the layout or the widgets are applied to all existing language translations of the page.
   When you choose to display content items that have different translations, the translation displayed depends on the page translation, which you are working with.
   For example, if you have added the News widget to a German translation of a page, the widget displays only the news items that have German translation. If for the items, you have chosen, no German translation exists, nothing is displayed.

5. When you are finished editing, perform procedure Set the status of new pages and content items.