Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Audience Targeting Explained and Demonstrated

The creation of audiences may be outside of the control of the humble site administrator, but she should understand how they are compiled and how they can be used. This section provides an example of creating an audience, compiling it, and then configuring a document library to use audience targeting, and the configuration of a web part on a home page to use audience targeting. This example combines tasks that would be performed by library administrators, site administrators, as well as farm administrators, but is necessary to fully provide an example of the process of using audiences. It is also important to note that audiences do not affect the access permissions of documents, but simply filter ...