{"id":821,"date":"2013-01-08T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T07:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collaboriscom.wpengine.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:28:10","slug":"what-is-a-sharepoint-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/what-is-a-sharepoint-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a SharePoint Audience ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

What is a SharePoint Audience ?<\/h1>\n

A SharePoint Audience is dynamically populated group of Users that are defined based on a set of \u2018rules\u2019 that define who is a member of that Audience. Audiences are only available in SharePoint Standard and above or MOSS.<\/p>\n

Once an Audience is configured it can then be manually compiled or scheduled to compile – usually overnight. The process of compiling the audience causes SharePoint to evaluate all of the rules against the user data store (usually Active Directory aka. AD).  Any users that match the rules will be added to the audience. Rules can vary greatly but are based on either a user profile property (such as Department, Name, Role, etc.), or based on criteria such as \u201cGive me all the users who report to Frank Roberts!\u201d.<\/p>\n

The main role of the Audience is to allow content targeting in SharePoint sites. Content Targeting allows web parts, list items to show (or hide) if the logged-on user is (or isn\u2019t) a member of the audience. For developers, SharePoint Audiences are also incredibly powerful as you can use them for many bespoke applications. This is what we achieved with DocRead<\/a> to target must read \/ required (or recommended) documents to users.<\/p>\n

One point to note – Audiences are NOT a way of controlling security. Just because a user can\u2019t see a web part (as they aren\u2019t in the audience), this doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t \u201cget to\u201d the data. Treat Audiences as merely a personalization feature and not a way to control access to documents or items in a list.<\/p>\n

Want to know how to create a SharePoint Audience?<\/h3>\n

This post<\/a> shows the step by step instructions to help you build a SharePoint Audience for new employees. You can easily follow the instructions and simply replace the ‘new employee’ criteria to define a group of people relevant to your organization.<\/p>\n

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