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Change of notification language
Just wanted to give a quick follow up on this. Sorry for the delay, but I am still waiting for feedback from the affected user.
I finally was able to change the locale of the private channel's SP page. I wasn't able in the beginning, because I was only member of the channel (not owner) and therefore couldn't see any language settings. However, I now changed the local to English and hope that this solves the issue.
As I said, I'm still waiting for feedback and will let you know.
Thanks!
Thanks for all the information. I will check with the user affected what type of notification it is.
What I found out so far: This notification comes from a list that is saved in a private Teams channel.
I checked all settings you mentioned:
- On the private channel's SP site, there is no setting to change language.
- In the superordinate SP site, the locale is already set to English (USA). Still, the notifications are in German.
Would it help to change the main language in the organization information? MS says:
Preferred language: Determines the language for all communications that are sent from Microsoft to your organization. When you sign up, this setting determines the language used by SharePoint Online, that your users see on your team site. If you change the language preference setting after you sign up, all future communications are sent in the most recent language selected.
Sounds like the solution for my problem, doesn't it?
It sounds like the solution, and if Microsoft had programmed the "Automate" notifications correctly that might have worked. But it didn't and the site regional settings is the only way to change it.
The regional settings of a subsite are not necessarily the same as top-level site. You would have had to change it in the Teams site before creating the channel. It's a private Teams channel. That complicates things. Those sites are created crippled and are harder to change. I once wrote this post
https://blog.icefire.ca/blogs/post/trick-to-uncripple-teams-private-channel-sites
That might work, it works for some of the crippled aspects, I'm not sure. I tried it in an uncrippled private channel site and I can see the regional settings.
You can also add "_layouts/15/regionalsetng.aspx" to the site URL and go to the site regional settings directlyJust wanted to give a quick follow up on this. Sorry for the delay, but I am still waiting for feedback from the affected user.
I finally was able to change the locale of the private channel's SP page. I wasn't able in the beginning, because I was only member of the channel (not owner) and therefore couldn't see any language settings. However, I now changed the local to English and hope that this solves the issue.
As I said, I'm still waiting for feedback and will let you know.
Thanks!
I can finally confirm that switching the locale of the SharePoint page solved the problem. Thank you for your valuable help! 🙂