Hi Dave,

Here is a short snippet that does redirect the user to the same page if it is translated or has a fallback language.

private List<LanguageBranch> availableLanguages;

protected List<LanguageBranch> AvailableLanguages
{
    get
    {
        if (this.availableLanguages == null)
        {
            this.availableLanguages = new List<LanguageBranch>();

            var service = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ILanguageBranchRepository>();

            foreach (LanguageBranch item in service.ListAll())
            {
                if (item.Enabled)
                {
                    this.availableLanguages.Add(item);                            
                }
            }

            this.availableLanguages = this.availableLanguages.OrderBy(l => l.SortIndex).ToList();
        }

        return this.availableLanguages;
    }
}

protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
    base.OnInit(e);

    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Request["change-language"]) == false)
    {
        // Load the language we want to redirect to
        var preferredLanguage = this.AvailableLanguages.FirstOrDefault(l => l.LanguageID == Request["change-language"]);
                
        if (preferredLanguage != null)
        {
            Response.Redirect(CurrentPage.GetPageLanguageUrl(preferredLanguage.LanguageID), true);
        }
    }
}

And then an extension method for fetching the page url:

public static string GetPageLanguageUrl(this PageData page, string languageId)
{
    var languageBranch = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ILanguageBranchRepository>().Load(languageId);

    if (languageBranch.Enabled == false)
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }

    // Check if the page is translated to the language
    if (page.ExistingLanguages.Any(c => c.Name == languageBranch.LanguageID))
    {
        return UriSupport.AddLanguageSelection(page.LinkURL, languageBranch.LanguageID);
    }

    // The page was not translated, check if the page has a fallback set on the preferred language
    var languageFallbacks = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentLanguageSettingsHandler>()
                    .GetFallbackLanguages(page.ContentLink, languageBranch.LanguageID);

    if (languageFallbacks.Contains(page.LanguageBranch))
    {
        return UriSupport.AddLanguageSelection(page.LinkURL, languageBranch.LanguageID);
    }

    var startPage = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>().Get<PageData>(PageReference.StartPage);

    // No fallback either, redirect to startpage
    return UriSupport.AddLanguageSelection(startPage.LinkURL, languageBranch.LanguageID);
}

Hi Johan

Thank you for your response, that looks like a really useful bit of code that I will no doubt use. Unfortunately its not quite what im looking for at the moment, apologies I probably did not explain very well. I am trying to generate a page more like this:

http://www.nintendo.com/countryselector

It would just link to the home page of each country rather than translating the current page into another language.

Many Thanks
Dave

There should be a dropdown menu in the LinkItemCollection, where you can choose the language for the link.

From the Nintendo example I would do three LinkItemCollection, one for each continent.

Make sure you have uiShowGlobalizationUserInterface set to true in site settings.

Hi Johan

Found it now, I hadnt spotted that dropdown. Got it working nicely now.

Thanks very much
Dave