Creating a multilingual email with the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager integration creating-multilingual-email-aem
Using this document, you will learn how to create a multilingual email using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager content and language copies.
The prerequisites are:
- Access to an AEM instance configured for the integration.
- Access to an ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign instance configured for the integration.
- An ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign multilingual email template configured to receive AEM content.
Creating new email content in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager creating-email-content-aem
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From ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager homepage, select Site.
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Select in which folder you want to create your page and click Create then Page. Here, we create our page in the en_us folder which will be our default language.
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Select the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Email (ACS) template.
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Fill in the properties of your email and click Create.
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Open your new email content and personalize it as needed. For more on this, refer to this page.
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From the Workflow tab, select the Approve for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign validation workflow. You will not be able to send an email in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign if it uses a content that has not been approved.
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Click Complete then Newsletter review from the Complete work item window.
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Click Complete then Newsletter approval. Once the content and sending parameters are defined, you can proceed to approving, preparing, and sending the email in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard.
Creating language copies creating-language-copies
After designing your email content, you now need to create your language copies which will be sync with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard as variants.
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Select your previously created page, click Create then Language Copy.
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Select your previously created email content which will be translated in the chosen languages then click Next.
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In the Target language(s) drop-down, select in which language your content will be translated then click Next.
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Click Create.
Your language copies are now created, you can now edit your content depending on the chosen language.
Creating your multilingual content in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard multilingual-acs
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From ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard homepage, click Create an email.
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Select your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign multilingual email template configured to receive ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager content. To learn more on how to create a template linked to your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager instance, refer to this page.
note note NOTE In this case, you will need to duplicate the built-in template Multilingual email (mailMultiLang) to be able to send your multilingual email. 
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Fill in the Properties and Audience of your email and click Create.
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In the Edit properties, make sure your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager account is correctly set in the Content drop-down.
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Click Language copy creation.
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Select your previously created ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager content and click Confirm. The ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager contents displayed here are only validated contents and can be filtered on their Label and Path.
note note NOTE The chosen language copy will be set as default, you can later change it in the Content variant block. 
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Click Create variants to link your multilingual content. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard will then automatically link the other language copies to this content. The created variants will have the same label and code language as the ones chosen in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager.
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Click the Content variant block to change your default variant if needed and click Confirm.
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If your content or variants are updated in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager, you can directly synchronize it in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard with the Refresh AEM contents button.
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Your email is now ready to be send. For more information on this, refer to this page.
note note NOTE You will not be able to send an email in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign if it uses an AEM content that has not been approved.
Your audience will receive your email depending on the Preferred languages set in their Profiles. To learn more on how to edit profiles and preferred languages, refer to this page.