Recently I received a question about a failing Variations Create Hierarchies Job . No matter how often the Job was started, the variation hierarchy never got created. Looking at the ULS log we noticed the following error: VariationCreateHierarchies - Failed to process a work item. This work item...

My colleague Cedric Naudy recently analyzed an interesting problem: Hierarchy creation for all site collections in a specific content database failed to create the hierarchy while hierarchy creation in other web applications worked fine. The Hierarchy creation jobs were marked as succeeded and but...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part 10 - Restructuring the Hierarchy Part 11 - Variations...

A common scenario with Variations is to customize the variation label menu which allows to switch between different labels by using (e.g.) a Repeater or DataList control which is bound to a VariationDataSource . You can achieve this easily by either writing a custom user control or by modifying the...

The Variations feature uses one specific list to link items in the different labels together: the Relationships List . The caveat is that as soon as an inconsistency exists in this list Variations will no longer work correctly. The problems that can occur can vary. Sometimes it is no longer possible...

The Admin UI of the site collection provides easy access to the variation settings. But the object model does not provide easy access to these settings. There are many scenarios where it would be (e.g.) very interesting to know which site is the root site of the variation. The solution for this problem...

Jeremy Jameson created an article series which talks about serious problems he ran into when using the variation feature. Unfortunatelly I cannot comment his articles directly as he disabled anonymous comments - and my blog is not on MSDN but on TechNet so I cannot login in MSDN so I have to provide...