Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Audience Targeting

Audience targeting can be enabled for lists and libraries, but audiences are compiled based on settings configured from Central Administration. This topic is covered in Chapter 21, because the audience targeting process happens when web parts are configured on a SharePoint page to use audience targeting to filter the content that is displayed.

It is important for a list and library administrator to understand the topic and decide whether it should be enabled for some or all libraries/lists because this will be another metadata item that end users or list administrators will need to configure to ensure that members of a specific audience are in fact seeing all the documents that should be targeted to them.