[opencms-dev] Mercury template and language switcher

[laurent.druart]

Hello Andreas,

Thanks for your answer.

I’ll try this.

Kind regards,

Laurent

> Le 19 août 2025 à 08:13, Andreas Zahner via opencms-dev <opencms-dev at opencms.org> a écrit :
> 
> Laurent,
> 
> first of all we do not recommend to use the single tree approach for multi language websites, mainly because of SEO reasons: you cannot create language specific URLs for your pages.
> 
> We developed and tested the language switcher only for websites that are not using the single tree approach, so I cannot give you a guarantee that it will work there.
> 
> To enable the language switcher, you have to follow these steps:
> 
> Go to the "Websites" app and edit the website where you want to use the language switcher.
> Add the following module parameters to the website configuration:
> locale.main=de
> locale.secondary=en
> Please note: the parameter "locale.secondary" can contain multiple, comma separated locale names.
> After that, you can use the "Compare locales" feature in the Sitemap editor of your website. You can find it as menu entry when clicking on the "Select view" icon (right icon on the left hand side).
> In this view, you can link pages to their matching localized versions or copy them to the other locale if no matching page exists yet.
> After you have done the steps above, you can add links to other language versions in a link sequence element and add a new link item in the content:
> For a link e.g. to the english version of your website, enter the value "opencms://locale@en" as link target.
> Place this link sequence e.g. in the header modelgroup for your pages.
> If you followed these steps, the link will always point to the corresponding page in the desired language.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Andreas
> 
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> Am 12.08.25 um 16:25 schrieb laurent.druart via opencms-dev:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Does mercury template contain a language switcher and if yes how to use it?
>> 
>> I already configured my test website with single tree approach following the documentation.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Laurent
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