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Site Contents - Target Audience

It is unsupported to set the target audience on /_layouts/15/viewlsts.aspx. It is supported to target the following content to specific audiences: Target list or library items to an audience Target ...
Lisa Chen MSFT's user avatar
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Differentiating content for different user groups

Well, if you're just starting out you'll have some reading to do...you might like to take a look at this post. I like the SP Maven blog, he approaches it from a 'super user' perspective rather than ...
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Site Contents - Target Audience

Audiences are not a security feature. You can only hide information from users by using audiences. The data is still available to them via the default pages like view all site content or CSOM or via ...
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Quick Launch and Audience in SharePoint 2016

Audience targeting for Quick Launch is only supported for site collections that have the Publishing Features enabled.
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Target audiences column on a list made required not working

You are correct, unfortunately, SharePoint by default fills this field with the text "No targeting" when it's left empty which causes it to pass the required validation part. If you want to make sure ...
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Audience targeting in Sharepoint-Hosted add-in

For now audience targeting is not supported for CSOM or REST. There is a corresponding uservoice. You can vote for it, may be we can speed up MS a bit for implementation :)
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How to enable Audience targeting in survey list?

Target Audience for Survey works same as it works for other list/library. Please refer below link to get more idea: Target content to specific audiences
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Is it possible to apply a target audiences in calendar view in SharePoint 2013?

Yes, you can achieve that easily by enabling Enable audience targeting as the following: List setting > Below general settings > click Audience targeting settings. Once Audience Targeting is ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
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limit a user to see specific view of a SharePoint list

Currently there is No way to use target Audience in SharePoint Modern List view. Workaround: Go to your SharePoint list. Click on Return to classic SharePoint (You can find it below left side ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
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Site Contents - Target Audience

Why are you trying to do this when the permissions you set at the site level already takes care of this? I don't think there is any explicit way to set a target audience to this page.
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Activate Modern Audience targeting on Site pages with PowerShell

I'm not sure it can be done via PowerShell, however it can be achieved via the EnableModernAudienceTargeting method in the PnP Framework (heavily reliant on CSOM). You can find the underlying code for ...
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SP groups are not displaying in modern communication site OTTB web parts

SharePoint groups are not supported for audience targeting in SharePoint online modern experience. Azure AD groups (including security groups and Microsoft 365 groups) are supported with the ...
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Audience targeting the navigation with SharePoint Group

SharePoint Groups are not supported for audience targeting in SharePoint online. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) groups (including Security groups and Microsoft 365 groups) are supported. Source: ...
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Quick links WebPart with Target Audience option

Microsoft is working on this new feature. The roll-out of this new feature will be completed in early May. You can find this in Microsoft 365 Message center, navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center->...
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Quick links WebPart with Target Audience option

Enabling audience targeting on the modern page web part is not available by default - there is a SharePoint user voice for this requirement, Microsoft has planned to release this in phases from one ...
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How to create target audience with GUID via PowerShell

I don’t think we can set the GUID for audience by ourselves. AudienceID is automatically generated by SharePoint and it is stored in database. It is unsupported to modify the database directly. ...
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Audience Guid is different in site collection backup and restoration?

If you restored it to different farm then yes target audience ID should be different. You have to reconfigure the audience on restore sites.
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Target Audiences in SharePoint list

This is the internal representation, the three types of values are separeted by ;;: AudienceIds(Guids);;DistributionListsNames;;SharePointGroups So when you have ;;;;GroupName it is just showing ...
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SharePoint Online-Communication Site-Top Nav-How to target audience?

In Sharepoint 2013 Audiences are managed on the Sharepoint server - do you have access to this? An audience needs to be configured and users added to it. I don't know if SP Online is different. ...
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DispForm, Target Audience or hide contents based on security group

I figured this out by switching the Content Editor to Script Editor web part with the following code in custom DispForm: <div class="hidInfo" id="varInfo"><xsl:value-of select="@...
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User unable to see content (links) that others in the same Audience can see

I faced the same issue Cannot set the accessibility of navigation tabs through AD groups few months back. Solution: Grant Replicating Directory Changes Permission in the AD to the account used for ...
Sohail Shaikh's user avatar
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News targeting - Department based (using Target Audience)

Target audience is an OOB list view web part property and is used to hide or display the current web part on the basis of current user permissions/ member of specific SharePoint groups. So ...
Prasad P's user avatar
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Get username or org in HTML page uploaded to SP 2013

Im not really sure how you are using that HTML page, but here's what i did for SharePoint online. I wont share the entire code since it might be different for SP2013, but i hope you get the point. ...
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Make SharePoint list partly confidential

Use the built-in Security Trimming If you have properly segmented your users into SharePoint and/or Domain Groups the solution should be relatively straightforward. It appears to me you have a ...
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Differentiating content for different user groups

Do NOT Rely On Audiences for Security ( Written 8 years ago, but Still Applies: https://www.itprotoday.com/skype-business/hiding-and-restricting-information-audiences-and-sharepoint-security ) ( ...
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How to share a document library item with Distribution/Security Groups?

There is no Distribution Group and Security Group among SharePoint Groups those are AD Groups. For your requirement you need create new groups and assign them the permission you need. Please check ...
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Audience Targeting web part property missing while exporting the content search web part?

Unfortunately, it's a common issue not only for Content Search Web Part but also for others web part like Content Query web part. what I think it is because of the default FilterByAudience property is ...
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Add Content Editor webpart in masterpage with Target audience

You can use the Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl to show/hide based on the permission. Assuming that you need to show links to user who have edit permission, you can add the below snippet in the ...
Gautam Sheth's user avatar
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How to enable Audience targeting in survey list?

Click the list or library that contains the item you want to target. For SharePoint Online, click Settings, and click List Settings or Document Library Settings.Select the Enable audience targeting ...
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