Hi, I am quite new to SharePoint multi-lingual abilities. - I would like to save the SPListItem data in more than one language specified in Languages. - Also, do not wish to create extra SPWeb for saving the variance languiage data of the same item. Want to save in same SPListItem. - Do not want to specify extra SPField for the different language, since Language may also be add-up later on. Is there any out of the box (no need to add exta code) for this issue?

As of elaboration: I am planning to use the SharePoint as an CMS (in Intranet) maintaining the data from where Internet facing web site is retrieving the contents. Since, Internet facing website must be in multi-lingual, I need to store the data in more than one language in SharePoint. I am trying to get the easiest way to store the multi-langual data in SharePoint without having much customization, if possible using only OOB features. So far, I had found the variation as a solution but it seems to be having the issues using variation as I had explored others' experience over the web. Can anyone suggest the better solution on this?

Hi Ye, Why dont you use Resource files for achieving your multi-lingual needs in SharePoint if you are not interested to use Variance. It is easy to edit & deploy these language specific resource files for your web-application. Let me know if you need more help on this.BR, PM

Check out few of the links below for achieving the same: http://blogs.msdn.com/joshuag/archive/2009/03/07/using-resource-files-resx-when-developing-sharepoint-solutions.aspx http://vspug.com/tonstegeman/2007/09/27/localizing-sharepoint-2007-site-columns-using-resource-files/ http://www.hezser.de/blog/archive/2007/10/28/howto-use-the-resource-files-from-sharepoint.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa544282.aspx Lemme know if this helps youBR, PM

Hi Prasanjit, Thanks for the interesting work around. Unfortunately, it still not solving my problem. What I would like to consider is from the data entry point of view: 1. Create new SPListItem. 2. In the Create page of SPListItem, choose language to enter (might be more than one language). 3. Choose a language from a combo box (or any single vlaue picker) of available languages, type in the data, repeat the process for as many languages as desire, IN THE SINGLE CREATE PAGE OF THE SINGLE SPListItem. (That's could make data entry person's life very much easier). 4. Saves the data, single save could save a single SPListItem containing entered languages variations. 5. Retrieve the data by calling (from WebService or WCF) SPListItem object model with specific locale. Can you help me point out how can I accomplist for this with OOB features? Please let me know if you need more eleboration on this? Thank you so much....

So you mean to say that you will have certain keys/values of various languages stored as different ListItems. Is that what you are trying to do? Else do correct me. This way you will hit the SharePoint limit of maximum number of ListItems (2000).BR, PM

My planned design is like this: SPWeb (Products) | SPSite (MP3 Players) | SPList (iPOD) | SPListItem (iPOD Nano) | SPField (Name) iPOD Nano 2GB, iPOD Nano 4GB, ..... SPField (Part Number) SP Field (Color) SPField (Capicity) 2GB, 8GB, ..... SPField (Price) SPField (Description) SPField (Quantity) I would like to save the SPFields in the same SPListItem using different language sets (English, French, German,...). I do not wish to create additional List or Web or Site to save the different languages of the item. Since, new languages are likely to add-up later, I must not add static SPField sets for each and every language. Is there any easiest way to accomplish this? Please let me know if you are unclear of my situation.

There is no such thing as "SharePoint limit of maximum numer of ListItems (2000).". But there is a recommended guideline that states 2000 items per view. So its just a matter of how many items you view (or query) at once. You must think about optimizing your views, so you don't loose too much performance, but not about "not storing more than 2000 list items" Read more about it here: http://blog.krichie.com/2007/02/14/can-you-really-have-more-than-2000-items-per-folder-in-sharepoint-now/