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Hi,

I'm trying to place some "hard-coded" links on a masterpage in a multi-language sharepoint environment. The masterpage should be used for different SiteCollections everywhere in the hierarchy, not only root-sites. The links are used for sitemap, contact, downloads etc.

Example:
English -> http://myserver/somesitecollection/en-US/someweb/Pages/sitemap.aspx

German -> http://myserver/somesitecollection/de-CH/someweb/Seiten/sitemap.aspx

How can i generelly build the link in my masterpage? I played around with the SPLinkButton-Control. My biggest problem is the "Pages"-directory. I tried with resources:

 <SharePoint:SPLinkButton 
        NavigateUrl="<%$SPUrl:~SiteCollection/~language/%><% $Resources:MyOwnResources, sitemap_link %>"
        Text="<%$Resources:By1eEuropeResources, sitemap %>"
        runat="server" />

where the string Pages/sitemap.aspx can be found under sitemap_link in my res-File.It seems,l that SPUrl and Resources can't be mixed in the same property of a control.

The render result is an empty href-Property.

Is there another way to realize that without 2 masterpages for 2 different panguages.

Thanx in advance
Nicolas

i am sorry , i am not able to answer your query,

i need help from you,

i have made one team site completly , now how to make this site work with other languages like japneese.

Please i am despreatly looking for help.

as i don't want to create that site again in japneese.

Dear samarsalica,

To build multilanguage sites You need to install the language pack(s) for the desired language(s) and set up variations. You'll find a lot of tutorials on the internet.

Regards

i have the same problem. any ideas out there? 

when i open sharepoint designer in a place that designer cant find any masterpage, designer warning to me and say: "I cant find any masterpages, find it" and show me the button that wrote on it:"Browse"

i Browse the master page in another location but designer cant link this to that and say me:"copy that masterpage in target location.

=? => perhaps we copy that master page from destinition to target and when it modified workflow copy it to second location

You could achieve this by creating a custom control. You would use it like <MyControl:SitemapLink runat="server" />. In the CreateChildControls method you would create the URL:
PublishingWeb pWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(SPContext.Current.Web);
string urlPart = String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{0}/{1}", SPContext.Current.Site.Url, pWeb.Label.Title);

Then you would need to it the coed to obtain the resource string: as I'm typing the code right now I don't know it exactly and wouldn't like to give you wrong example.

Then in the Render method you would do:
writer.Write(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "<a href=\"{0}\">Sitemap</a>", navigateUrl));

 It's maybe not as simple as using the SPLinkButton but it would provide with any flexibility you want: combining resources and setting the URL as well.

I recently found the property "List_Pages_UrlName" in the cmscore.resx. That contains the Pages or Seiten string...But i can't either use it in combination with other tags in the same attribute... just that you know that you must not build your own resourcefile with this strings ....