3.1.1.3 Variations

Variations is a term applied to a feature that helps manage multilingual content. A variations feature automates the process of copying site hierarchies and publishing pages for display in different languages. Editors modify the source variation site and publishing pages it contains, and then the variations feature automatically generates one or more target variation sites and publishing pages for one or more languages. The variations feature also keeps track of which publishing page fields are translatable. The protocol client can use the ExportObjects and ImportObjects operations to extract, and update multilingual content created by such a feature.<5>