Set Audience targeting on left navigation with Javascript/Jquery

Question

I want to set Audience targeting on left navigation bar of SharePoint, though there are around 50 links on which i need to set the targeting on.

Every time I take a template and restore it, I manually need to update targeting again and again.
Is there a way to set audience targeting on navigation with the help of javascript/JQuery?

I am using office 365/ SharePoint online.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This option is available if you have Publishing enabled on your site, and does not require any JavaScript.

1. Go to Site Settings, find the Navigation link under Look and Feel.

2. Select one of the Structural Navigation options (or if the parent is using Structural Navigation, you can select to use the same as parent).

3. Towards the bottom will be a section called Structural Navigation: Editing and Sorting. Select the link you want to audience target, click Edit..., and a modal should pop up. Select the group(s) you want to target the link to.

4. Save your changes, and they should take place.

Answer 2

If Publishing Feature is not activated, we have only one option with the help of JQuery to perform audience targeting in Quick launch bar.

function TopSummaryBoxCalc()
{
    var urls = "https://tenant/sitecollection/site/_api/web/currentUser/groups?$select=title";
    var output = getListItem(urls);
}

function getListItem(urlform) 
{
    var a=[];
    $.ajax({
        url: urlform,
        method: "GET",    
        headers: {
            "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose"
        },
        success: function (data) {
            var dataResults = data.d.results;
            for(var i = 0;i<dataResults.length;i++){
                a[i]=dataResults[i].Title.trim();

            }console.log(a);
            var answer=$.inArray( "GROUP NAME", a );

            if(answer ==-1)
            {
                $(".ms-core-listMenu-item:contains('node name1')").hide();
                $(".ms-core-listMenu-item:contains('node name2')").hide();
            }

        },
        error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            alert("error:"+JSON.stringify(xhr));
        }
    });
}