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MOSS 2007 : Documents Libraries / Report Libraries & Audience Targetting.

Does it sound familiar : As a content creator we try to publish & organize our documents & libraries in a decent way. Unfortunately those sales guy's don't find the information that is relevant for them. It happens all the time with all kinds of content (Word Documents, Excel Reports, ...). This is where Audience targetting comes in. The purpose is to publish relevant links to content somewhere on the portal on those pages they visit  frequently eg. the Sales Home page. .

How do we build such a solution : Actually we need to complete 3 simple steps :

  • Enable this feature on the list of content that you want to target (a Document Library, a Report Library containing excel reports or with SQL Server 2005 SP2 this is also possible for Reporting Services Reports published to the sharepoint environment).
  • For each document/Report specify the audiences you want to target the content to.
  • Place a Content Query web-part on the pages where you want to publish the links to relevant information.

Posted: Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:08 PM by Gunter Staes

Comments

Adam said:

Hi, thanks for the handy info! Quick question: is there a way to optionally apply audience filtering on the fly?

Scenario: I have content I want to target to users in AMER region by default but I also want to give them the option of seeing content for the EMEA region on the same page.

It would be great to be able to switch between audiences on the fly but I don't see how to do this as the audiences are compiled offline? Thanks in advance...(PS Using MOSS standard, not enterprise so sadly cannot use filter webparts)

# January 22, 2007 7:17 PM

Gunter Staes said:

I wouldn't use Audience targetting for this. You're not going to change from usergroup to toggle between the categories. There are other ways to filter content by using the same conter querrying web-part, filter web-parts, Search, ... I need to play with these tools to to find out how I could achieve this in the most easy way. Any suggestions are welcome.

# January 25, 2007 4:45 AM
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