Audience targeting on navigation not working

Question

Hello everyone,

I recently came across a SPS 2010 (SP1) installation where audience targeting not working. I target a navigation link to a “SharePoint group” audience but people not member of that group still can see the link. I tried this on a team site with publishing features turned on and also on a publishing site both behaves the same way. I do the same steps on another 2010 farm and audience targeting works as expected.  

Tried toggling navigation security trimming, audience targeting (from Site Collection Navigation Settings) without any luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Many thanks in advanced!

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BlueSky2010
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Answer 1

Hi BlueSky2010,

I am a bit confused by your post. You said that you permissioned a link, and that people who are not part of that permissions set can still see the link. If this is just a standard link in a Publishing-enabled (Current or Global Navigation) or in a non-Publishing (Quick Launch or Top Link bar), then the link will appear regardless of the permissions assigned to the site.

Audience targeting is not technically security, merely obfuscation - it hides or shows things based upon a person's membership in an audience. So, if you wish to have the link not appear, you can either compile an Audience on a schedule and have it "hide" the link by promoting it only to that Audience, or you can create a SharePoint Security Group, use it to build an Audience, and then "hide" the link by promoting it only to that Audience.

The sum total of this is that manually entered links do not trim automatically within SharePoint, whether or not Publishing is enabled...

Hope this helps

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Troy Lanphier -- MCT/MCSE/MCITP SharePoint Server 2010 Administration -- Author: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out -- http://blog.sharepointcookbook.com

Answer 2

or you can create a SharePoint Security Group, use it to build an Audience, and then "hide" the link by promoting it only to that Audience.

Hi Troy,

Sorry re-reading my original post - now I see it's confusing (I'll remove the word 'permission'). I'm trying to display few links only to an audience (which is a SharePoint security group in my case). Attached link explains what exactly I'm trying to get out of it. Which is working on one farm but not on the other. Any troubleshooting ideas would be appreciated.

Hope this clarifies things a bit more. :-)

Thank you!

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BlueSky2010
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Answer 3

hmm...looks like I'm kind of unique with this audience issue. Any thoughts anyone?

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Answer 4

Hi Have you found any solution on this?

Im facing the same issue in my Sharepoint Site.

Thanks!

Abraham

Answer 5

Hi Abraham,

My issue resolved once User profile serivce was configured. The farm where I was having this issue did not have the UPS configured - once I provisioned UPS (did not even had to import users) that the issue was resolved. Hope this helps!

Good luck!!

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Answer 6

Hi Thanks for the valuable information. Issue resolved after UPS configuration.

Regards!