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Environment: SharePoint 2010 CU: December

In SharePoint page --> web parts the “Target Audiences” property not visible in web part tool pane.

I tried IISRESET, restart of the machine as well as mentioned in some MS forums, but it didn’t fix it.

Any help is much appreciated

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Which web part? – James Love Apr 13 '11 at 19:49
All the web parts – Kishork Apr 13 '11 at 20:26
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Are you on Foundation or Server? Can I verify you are looking for this property in the right place, in the Advanced section beneath the "Import Error Message" property? – Chris Beckett Apr 13 '11 at 21:09
Server ...Yes, we were looking at the right property. We have resolved it now, It was a user error :( check my comment below. Thanks – Kishork Apr 13 '11 at 22:26

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By mistake we had a "-" char in the word "Culture" in web.config

Long version:

  • We were implementing custom audience Runtime Filter to enable targetting for Anonymous users and we replace the OOTB "Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience.AudienceManager" runtime filter with our custom audience Runtime Filter

  • When making the entry into the web.config for our audience runtime filter, by mistake the the below line had a "-" char in the word Culture (like "Cul-ture") (our Change control system added the char "-" for a new line break!)

<RuntimeFilter
    Assembly="MyLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8d532cf2904af4ae"
    Class="AnonymousAudiencesRuntimeFilter"
    BuilderURL="audience_chooser.aspx" />
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@Shoban: You found a bug in the markdown editor, that's why it wasn't working as expected. Putting in something before the code seems to fix it: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34292/… – Alex Angas Apr 14 '11 at 6:51
@Alex Ah okay!! ;-) thanks – Shoban Apr 14 '11 at 6:57
Its not resolved for me i don't see Cul- in my web.config.... – user3494 May 24 '11 at 14:12
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As Kishork noted, this particular issue was related to a custom audience filter. Just wanted to add that we've seen this same issue several times in our Sharepoint 2010 environment after using Metalogix to move content, or running various jobs. The initial symptom is the same - the target audience property isn't visible when editing a web part.

Running iisreset won't do the trick. I've seen several posts in various forums where admins have resorted to re-provisioning the User Profile Service application, which will work, but the solution in our environment has been pretty simple.

Just add a space, or any other small change, to web.config and save.

Not sure why this works, but try this if you ever run into this issue.

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Under List Settings > Audience Settings, do you have audiencing enabled for that list?

http://screencast.com/t/yKRWqXAxcI

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His issue is with Target Audiences on Web Parts, not on lists. – Chris Beckett Apr 13 '11 at 21:07

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