Enabling Item level language fallback

Question

I want to enable to language Fallback for particular Item. I have performed the all the standard steps

1. Enabling the language fallback option on sitecore

2) Checked the settings on the config file and set the values to true

On sitecore when i got the other language it says "No version exists in the current language. You see a fallback version from 'en' language.

Navigate to the original item.
Add a new version."

But when i got the website and see the EN language works fine but the other language is throwing a 404 error.

Please help me if i am missing any steps here.

Regards, S.Harshavardhan

Answer 1

Field level language fallback enables you to specify on a field-to-field basis, which field values should be localized and which field values should fall back to another language.

Field level language fallback is disabled by default, so you must enable it on each relevant website and on the template field definition item.

Follow these steps to enable the feature on your Sitecore instance:

1. Enable Field level language fallback on the desired sites in Sitecore configuration. This change can be done within /App_Config/Include/Sitecore.LanguageFallback.config or any other custom config include file.

    <site name="shell">
         <patch:attribute name="enableFieldLanguageFallback">true</patch:attribute>   </site>  
     <site name="website">
         <patch:attribute name="enableFieldLanguageFallback">true</patch:attribute>   </site>
   

2. Specify the fallback language rules. The fallback language specified on a language definition item in content tree under the /sitecore/system/Languages item. For each language that has to be enabled for fallback, make sure the Fallback Language field on that language definition item points to the desired target language.

3. Finally, you need to enable Field level language fallback for those fields you'd like to have this feature enabled. There are two checkbox fields that enable this feature:

Enable field level fallback This is a shared field that is used to enable language fallback for all the language versions of the current field. This applies to the all the currently available language versions of the field and any new language versions that you create. In other words, if you require that a certain fields need to be enabled for fallback only in certain languages, the Enable versioned field level fallback field should be used.

Enable versioned field level fallback This is a versioned field used to enable language fallback for only the current language version of the field. To allow different fallback settings for the same field in different languages (versioned fallback), in the /App_Config/Include/Sitecore.LanguageFallback.config file, the following configuration setting must be set to true.

<setting name="LanguageFieldFallback.AllowVaryFallbackSettingsPerLanguage" value="true" />

For more information follow this - https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0111331

Answer 2

On all the individual items or item templates where you want to use language fallback, you must enable item-level fallback

To enable item-level fallback:

• In the content tree, navigate to the relevant item.
• To enable language fallback on a template, navigate to the relevant template and click the _Standard Values item.
• On the Content tab, in the Advanced section, select Enable Item Fallback.

Follow this document for more details.

https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/92/sitecore-experience-manager/enable-and-set-up-language-fallback.html#enable-item-level-fallback

Also, you can do the following.

Select a fallback language in "System/Language" as below.