Comments on: Creating Site Variations and Variations Label Menu not working http://www.sharepointbuzz.com/2008/01/07/creating-site-variations-and-variations-label-menu-not-working/ Your SharePoint Community Resource Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:46:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2-9582 hourly 1 By: bdimitre http://www.sharepointbuzz.com/2008/01/07/creating-site-variations-and-variations-label-menu-not-working/comment-page-1/#comment-5864 bdimitre Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:48:26 +0000 http://www.sharepointbuzz.com/index.php/2008/01/07/creating-site-variations-and-variations-label-menu-not-working/#comment-5864 I have been working with variations on MOSS 2007 and I must say I am not too happy with them thus far. My problem currently is this and I am hoping someone can help me. I have a site called “SiteA” and I need to create 10+ variations of it for different countries. When I create the variation all relative links with in the content stay the same. For example http://www.mysite.com/SiteA/ is my variations source site with Variation label SiteA and I create a variations with variation label name SiteB so I would have http://www.mysite.com/SiteB/ All the links with in the content of SiteA would be like: http://www.mysite.com/SiteA/Products/Pages/product.aspx So in the variation SiteB all URL links should have been updated from SiteA to SiteB… I was under the impression that variations would automatically update all relative links and URL’s within the site. Is that true? If not is there an easy way in SharePoint Designer 2007 to use something like Find and Replace for the entire site instead of having to go in to each page and do it manually? Any help and response would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. I have been working with variations on MOSS 2007 and I must say I am not too happy with them thus far.
My problem currently is this and I am hoping someone can help me.
I have a site called “SiteA” and I need to create 10+ variations of it for different countries.
When I create the variation all relative links with in the content stay the same. For example

http://www.mysite.com/SiteA/ is my variations source site with Variation label SiteA

and I create a variations with variation label name SiteB so I would have http://www.mysite.com/SiteB/

All the links with in the content of SiteA would be like: http://www.mysite.com/SiteA/Products/Pages/product.aspx
So in the variation SiteB all URL links should have been updated from SiteA to SiteB…

I was under the impression that variations would automatically update all relative links and URL’s within the site. Is that true?

If not is there an easy way in SharePoint Designer 2007 to use something like Find and Replace for the entire site instead of having to go in to each page and do it manually?

Any help and response would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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