Variations Sharepoint 2013

Question

I want variations to not update target pages automatically. So I run the following script on poweshell:

$rootWeb = Get-SPWeb http:///

$relationshipsList = $rootWeb.Lists["Relationships List"]

$propertyStore = $relationshipsList.RootFolder $propertyStore.Properties.Add("DisableAutomaticPropagation", "True") $propertyStore.Update();

But smth is not right. Because when:

1- When source is first published, I can manually click the button Create Varioation and than the target page is created. And this is ok

2- But when I republish this source page, the content updated is reflected to the target automatically.

I don't want the target page to update automatically with the minor version of the source page just republished. THIS was the reason I made it manual

Can I do this on Sharepoint 2013? How?

EDIT

Sharepoint 2013 has the variations settings page, but they seems they doesn't work

Do not recreate a new target page when the source page is republished, - I checked this but the page is still recreated

How to stop recreating the variation page?

Answer 1

I did some test and I found out that after creating variations with automatic propagation it is way too difficult to change them. If you configure variation settings with automatic variations set ti off BEFORE creating hierarchies it works.

Answer 2

there is similar question on stackexchange please read it and something is missing in ur powershell command

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://yourserver/sites/abc")
$folder = $site.RootWeb.Lists["Relationships List"].RootFolder
$folder.Properties.Add("DisableAutomaticPropagation", "True")
$folder.Update();

Language Variations: Variation Page getting updated by source (When it shouldn't)

Answer 3

You can change the Page Update Behavior by going to 'Site settings' on your root site, clicking on 'Variation labels' (/_layouts/VariationLabels.aspx) and then clicking on your label you want to stop updating. There you can find an option called 'Page Update Behavior'.
The options are:

• Automatic updates
• Manual updates