An administrator is troubleshooting an issue where certain external users on a Community (Experience Cloud site) cannot view translated Knowledge articles. Standard internal users can view them without issue. What is the most likely cause of this behavior?
Trap 1: Knowledge translation is only supported for internal users with a…
Knowledge translation works for external Experience Cloud users; licence type does not gate the feature. Restricting translation to full internal licences would be the answer if the platform limited localisation by licence, but the actual cause lies in language settings, article visibility or data category access.
Trap 2: Translated articles automatically default to 'Archived' status when…
Translation status is independent of licence type; articles are not auto-archived on viewing by community users. Archiving is a deliberate lifecycle action, so this would explain invisibility only if an administrator had archived the translation, not as an automatic consequence of external access.
Trap 3: The Knowledge component in Experience Cloud must have hardcoded…
Experience Cloud Knowledge components resolve language from the user's locale and article translations, not hardcoded URL parameters. Hardcoding suits forcing a specific language for a single embedded article, but the likely cause here is missing translated article versions or language settings for external users.
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Knowledge translation is only supported for internal users with a full Salesforce license.
Why it fails: Knowledge translation works for external Experience Cloud users; licence type does not gate the feature. Restricting translation to full internal licences would be the answer if the platform limited localisation by licence, but the actual cause lies in language settings, article visibility or data category access.
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Translated articles automatically default to 'Archived' status when viewed by community license holders.
Why it fails: Translation status is independent of licence type; articles are not auto-archived on viewing by community users. Archiving is a deliberate lifecycle action, so this would explain invisibility only if an administrator had archived the translation, not as an automatic consequence of external access.
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Language permissions and Data Category visibility for the specific language have not been granted to the Experience Cloud site profile or permission set.
Knowledge access requires both the language itself and the article's data categories to be granted to the site's profile or permission set. External users lacking either see no translated articles, while internal users with full access view them normally, explaining the discrepancy.
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The Knowledge component in Experience Cloud must have hardcoded language codes defined in URL parameters.
Why it fails: Experience Cloud Knowledge components resolve language from the user's locale and article translations, not hardcoded URL parameters. Hardcoding suits forcing a specific language for a single embedded article, but the likely cause here is missing translated article versions or language settings for external users.