Audience Targeting to a List item

Note: Audience targeting is a feature of MOSS only, not WSS. It is a filtering technique not a security measure.

using Audience targeting concept of MOSS, we can display different contents to different people on the same page.

Steps to target list items:

1) Create User Profile

2) Create Audience Group

3) Apply targeting to list items

Steps to create User Profile:

See the post for Audience Targeting to a web part

Steps to create Audience Group:

See the post for Audience Targeting to a web part

Steps to Apply targeting to list items:

Let me explain with the help of an example

1) Create a SharePoint site with Collaboration Portal template

2) Open your SharePoint intranet site where you need to target audience

Let as take an example...... say News list items.

3) Go to the News Page by clicking on the News tab at the top

4) To ensure that Audience Targeting is enabled for that list

4.1) Click View All Site Content in the Quick Launch

4.2) Click Pages

4.3) In the Settings tab, click Document Library settings

4.4) Under general settings, click on Audience Targeting Setting

4.5) Check the Enable Audience Target check box

4.6) Click Ok

5) Add a new news item to target

5.1) Click News tab at the top

5.2) In Site Actions, click Create Page

5.3) Now Create Page is opened. Give title, description, page layout etc.

5.4) Click Create

5.5) Now you can edit the content by clicking Edit Content

5.6) Similarly add picture if you want

5.7) On the Page tab at the top, click Page Settings

5.8) There you have an option for Audience Targeting

5.9) Give the Audience Group name to which you need to target

5.10) Click Ok

6) Target Content Query web part to that particular Audience group
6.1) Click News tab at the top

6.2) In Site Actions click Edit Page

6.3) In the Edit tab of News Roll Up web part, click Modify Shared Web part

6.4) In the coming panel, expand Advanced

6.5) At tye bottom, you have an option for Audience Target

6.6) Give the name of the Audience Group there

6.7) Click Ok

7) Now login as a member of Audience then you can see that new news item oherwise not................