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Getting started

How to configure and use Rocketta Translator for SharePoint

Rocketta Translator for SharePoint takes the manual work out of multilingual content management. Content editors can have pages translated automatically, saving hours of repetitive effort.

For teams, this means faster delivery of accurate information, in the language users actually prefer. It reduces bottlenecks, improves collaboration across regions, and ensures every audience gets timely, consistent updates.

Setup Best Practices

The Translator for SharePoint uses SharePoint lists to store its data — including global settings, translation logs, and statuses (see the Technical details page for more info). These lists, called the “data source,” are created automatically through the web part settings, so there’s no need to set them up manually.

For a streamlined setup, configure the Translator data source on one dedicated site. This ensures all settings and configurations are stored in a single, central location.

Once it’s in place, if you need to translate sites, simply link to this central data source, no need to duplicate settings or manage multiple configurations.

Note: only users in the Site Owners group can create a data source.
Note: each site can have only ONE data source.

Getting Started with Rocketta Translator

After adding the Translator for SharePoint to a site, you can customize its various settings.

  1. To get started, simply head to the top of your site and find the Translator icon.
    Note: If your site doesn’t have multiple languages enabled yet, you’ll need to add them first. Click Open Settings, and SharePoint will guide you to the page where new languages can be added. Once that’s done, the Translator will be ready for use.
  2. Go back to the Home page and click on the Translator icon. Log in with administrator rights and access the Translator settings. From there, select the source site to copy the configuration from. This step only needs to be performed once. After the configuration is applied, all users on the current site will have access to the Translator functionality. There is no requirement to connect to or manage the original site where the configuration data resides. you have added languages to your site, go back to the site’s home page and click on the Translator icon.
  1. Configure the Microsoft Translator settings:
  • Microsoft Translator Key (mandatory field to be filled in)
    This is the API key for your Azure AI Translator instance. It must be created by your Azure subscription Owner or Contributor during setup (see Installation Instructions).
  • Microsoft Translator Region (mandatory field to be filled in)
    The region where your Translator resource is located. It’s linked to the key above and also required.
  • Microsoft Translator Category ID: This optional feature lets you use Microsoft’s Custom Translator, so you can tailor the default translation model to better fit your organization’s needs. You can find more details on Microsoft’s official page.
  1. Control whether attribution details appear in the Footer Translation Message. This optional setting allows you to automatically display a short note next to translated content, indicating that the text was generated by AI.

Note: Once you hit Save, the attribution text will be placed at the bottom of each translated page automatically.