How to use Audience Targeting Feature with an HCWP Web Part

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[@philipparendt5787]

This was very helpful, thank you!

[@SharePointMaven]

My pleasure, Philipp!

[@dianeblair4217]

Hi Greg, do you if you can add more than one target audience for a file? For example, we have training documents geared toward specific business areas. However, sometimes the same training document can be used for multiple business areas. Can this be set up? Thanks.

[@SharePointMaven]

Absolutely, Diane, you can specify up to 10 sec groups (audiences).

[@marinacicchi3272]

Hi. I've been trying to do something like this but on a Hub site - showing something on a library in one of the sites linked to the hub, but I still see all the documents not just the targeted ones. Is this possible to do? thank you

[@SharePointMaven]

Should not be that way, probably has to do with security groups you use for targeting

[@marinacicchi3272]

I am using mail enabled security groups. It works within the sites but not on the hub.

[@fabriziomele4289]

So, if I wanted to target audience some documents in a Document Library I have to do it inside the Document Library one by one (and it's ok), and then insert a HCWP WebPart inside the page that pickup this targed Document Library. It's too bad, though, that the HCWP is not very customizable, especially if I want to show the documents in the list view, but I can't edit/change/customize the columns (which are always Title, Modified, Modified By). Sometimes I wonder why SharePoint complicates life, when it would be enough to apply Target Audience in the Document Library Webpart. Life's mysteries.

[@SharePointMaven]

I hear you.

[@fabriziomele4289]

@@SharePointMaven and, if I'm not mistaken, in SharePoint 2013, every single webpart, from the most lame to the most complex, could be assigned to target audience...

[@SharePointMaven]

@@fabriziomele4289 Probably, I forget now, being a while since I used SP 2013.

[@omtschand3432]

SharePoint groups don't work?

[@SharePointMaven]

No