Variations Label Menu is not working in MOSS 2007 RTM

From: r.s.smit att gmail dot com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
Subject: Variations Label Menu is not working in MOSS 2007 RTM
Date: 22 Nov 2006 07:23:22 -0800

I am currently setting up a demo environment which hosts a public facing website. This website is made using the "Publishing Portal" template that comes with the MOSS 2007 RTM Trial version. After the creation of the site I have enabled variations, with two languages; English and Dutch. The sites are succesfully created however the "Variations Label Menu" is not displayed on the pages. Even after publication of the pages they are not displayed. I have checked the Master Pages for the "VariationLabelsMenu.ascx", which is included in the master page that I use.

Has anyone come across this issue and found a solution? Have seen it working on a Beta release...

For more information about this feature:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830817.aspx > Figure 5.

Thanks in advance,
Reinier

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From: olivier dott lottenbach at swissonline dot ch
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
Subject: Re: Variations Label Menu is not working in MOSS 2007 RTM
Date: 24 Nov 2006 08:27:49 -0800

I have the same problem. With Sharepoint 2007 B2TR it worked fine but with MOSS 2007 RTM it just doesn't work !!

Anyone got a workaround for that??

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From: caroline att 2at dott nl
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
Subject: Re: Variations Label Menu is not working in MOSS 2007 RTM
Date: 27 Nov 2006 07:55:40 -0800

In the actual VariationsLabelMenu.ascx the cms:VariationsLabelEcbMenu is outcommented with <%-- --%> comments. Remove these and the control works fine!

The file is located here:

Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web serverextensions\12\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES\VariationsLabelMenu.ascx (just edit with notepad)

or check my blog entry here:

http://www.2at.nl/cs/blogs/caroline/archive/2006/11/27/42.aspx

Caroline

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From: olivier dot lottenbach at swissonline dott ch
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
Subject: Re: Variations Label Menu is not working in MOSS 2007 RTM
Date: 29 Nov 2006 05:10:55 -0800

Thanks Caroline !

It works fine!

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A comment received from: mleon at microsoft dot com

The label menu takes an extra trip to the DB regardless of whether it is being displayed or not.  Given that the control lives in the master page, every page takes this extra hit.  Not good especially since most pages will probably not be part of a variations hierarchy.  Hence it was commented out.

Regards

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