Target Specific Content to Specific Audience for List Items, Document Library Items

This is a wonderful out of box feature of SharePoint. You can target any list items, document libraries items to specific groups, distribution list, members.

Target List \ Document Library items to an audience -

There are two options for doing this ->

1) Change Manage permissions for an item
2) Enable Target Audience option available for list and document library

1) Change Manage permissions for an item -

• Right Click on particular item which you want to set for specific audience. You will find manage permission option. The permissions for current item will be inherited from the parent folder. So according to your choice it can be changed. Users who have the permission on these items; it will appear accordingly in the document library for them.

2) Enable Target Audience option available for list and document library -
    For doing this three steps you have to follow -

• Enable audience targeting on the list or library
• Specify the target audience on the items
• Display the targeted items in a Content Editor Web Part

Explanation of these steps -

Enable audience targeting on the list or library -

• Navigate to particular list or library. Click on Settings tab -> Document Library Settings.

• Click on Audience Target Settings.

• Enable Audience Target checkbox. Click ok
• After enabling target audience you will be able to see one more column in List or Document Library as Target Audience.

Specify the target audience on the items -

• On the item -> Right Click -> Edit Properties
• Add the Target Audience list in this.

Display the targeted items in a Content Editor Web Part -

After using this option the library items will be visible to everyone .You have to use Content Query Web Part to display items for a specific audience.

How to add Site Hierarchy in Left navigation area of SharePoint site

I am wondering if this can be useful for you all.

I wanted to show all folder structure related to my site in left navigation menu, basically site hierarchy. For showing this you just need to enable tree structure on the page.

How to do that ->

1) Go to the SharePoint site.
2) Click on Site Actions -> Click Site Settings -> Click Tree View as shown below

3) Click on Enable Tree view.

Explore SharePoint Site Navigation – How to create or modify Top Link tab and Side Bar Link Navigation

When we create new site then Root site will be shown as home page. Under that we can create many sites; but how can we show\ modify navigations according to our requirements.

I am going to explain difference between Current Navigation and Global Navigation.

Global Navigation – This is shown at the top of the page along with the site collection Home page tab.

Current Navigation - This is shown in the side of the page most of the times.

How can we modify navigation as per our requirements ->

1) Browse the Site -> Click on Site Actions -> Site Settings.

2) Click on Navigation

3) Select the option according to your choice

4) Navigation Editing and Sorting  -> This section is used to reorder, modify or create new navigation under this site.

You will find this Navigation Tool Bar for settings.

If you want to create new tab in site for top navigation then add heading under global navigation

If you want to add child link under some top navigation tab then add link in particular heading

If you want to create a new parent link in side navigation bar then add Heading under current navigation.

If you want to create new child link in the side navigation bar then add link within heading under current navigation.