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How to modify VariationRoot and deploy through a feature?

Asked By: Gaurang Akki Date: Mar 26, 2010 Category: Sharepoint Views: 174

We would need to modify the default behavior of the VariationRoot page. We always want it to redirect to the root variation language rather than the language of the user browser.

What's the best way to do this? We need to deploy it through one of our features. Will this work considering the VariationRootPageLayout.aspx file is already a part of the existing PublishingResources feature?

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Answer #1 Answered By: Micheal Knight Answered On: Mar 26, 2010

VariationRoot is just a page provisioned as soon as you do anything with Feature. The default behavior is indeed annoying and many customers don't like the way it works. The way I deal with this situation is: I create an ordinary Publishing Page, set it as the Welcome Page and then put the custom redirection Web part on it. This web part wraps all the redirecting logic. I'm sure there are other ways to achieve this like using HttpModules for example but creating a Publishing Page and a Web Parts seems quite straight-forward to me.

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