How to redirect users to the right site when using variations?

Question

I am currently using SharePoint 2013 On-Premise and I have enabled the Variations in a site collection.

Under the site collection, three sub sites are created for each language. My question is: how can I redirect the user to the right language when he/she visits the site? Does SharePoint handle this based on user's Browser settings, do I have to write any custom code to handle redirection or configure something in web.config?

Edit

I have changed the language in the browser to French, but I am still not redirected to the French site when I visit my site: http://dev/sites/heli,for example.

Answer 1

When you enable variations in your site collection, there is a file created in the pages Library called: VariationRoot.aspx. When you open this file, you will be redirected to the write site.

You have to set this page as your home page, so that everytime a user visits your site, he will be redirected to the correct site.

You can set it has homepage either in 1) SharePoint Designer or you can use 2) PowerShell.

I hope this will help you.

Answer 2

Redirect is based on users browser settings (out of the box) but this behaviour can be overridden based on users profile language preferences (require customization)

Answer 3

You can try this:

• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/c2c8d72d-45f0-4c34-936d-3bdabec68b14/autoredirect-to-self-enrollment-portal-when-logging-into-site-protected-with-multi-factor?forum=windowsazureactiveauthentication
• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/20b5793a-cfeb-4105-956c-a0302676c8ea/redirect-to-user-to-particular-subsite-based-upon-view-only-permission-on-parent-site-?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/7915acd4-8240-4cc2-8465-fdb8811d7529/workflow-to-redirect-user-to-another-page

I guess there's no other way, you will need to code.

Bests Regards!