Add content to a CTC multilingual site using page templates

Add content using a page template to a base library on a Content Template Catalog multilingual site works differently to a standard site. Additional steps are required to ensure the content is available in all of the sites of your multilingual system, and that new content passes through a multilingual workflow.

When creating a new page using a Content Template Catalog page template, the content created when adding a page is immediately published without progressing through the multilingual workflow. This is because the content is copied from the templated content, which itself is published. This content uses text providers to ensure that it does not need translation, but the content must be copied into the libraries for each site in your multilingual system. For example, to create a new multilingual page in the CTC Demo site:

1. Create the new page in the CTC Demo site named "Courses" using the "Courses" page template.

2. From the Toolbar, click Content > Web Content Authoring.

3. Click Preferences > Personalize.

   1. Click Library Selection and select the "CTC Demo", "CTC Demo AR", "CTC Demo DE", "CTC Demo ES" and "CTC Demo ZH" libraries to be displayed.

   2. Click OK.

4. Go to the site area created by the page creation. This is located under CTC Demo > Content > CTC Demo > Home.

5. Open the "Courses" site area in read mode

6. Copy the "Courses" site area and its branch to each of the libraries for each site in the multilingual system. For the CTC Demo, this means copying the site area branch to the "CTC Demo AR", "CTC Demo DE", "CTC Demo ES" and "CTC Demo ZH" libraries. To do this:

   1. Choose "Copy Branch" from the menu. This menu option is installed with the Content Template Catalog. A copy of the branch is made and named with the prefix "COPY_OF_".

   2. Move the new site area to the target library. For example, "CTC Demo AR" in the same location as the copied branch.

   3. Rename the copy to have the same name as the original site area by removing the prefix "COPY_OF_".

7. Ensure that each of the portlets on the new page has the multilingual context processor applied.

8. Modify the page to add an additional web content association to the equivalent site area in the new locale sites.

For more information on how to apply the multilingual context processor and how to set web content association, see:

• Portlet Render-time navigation extensions

• Web content associations

Parent Apply the multilingual solution to Content Template Catalog sites