About 

This training guide was created by Jint and remains the property of Jint. It is provided to Jint's partners and customers to help them become proficient when using Microsoft Audience for the News web part in Jint.​

Please note that apart from this training guide, no training on SharePoint will be provided by Jint. To find all the documentation concerning SharePoint, you can turn to the Microsoft SharePoint support. 

Objectives 

• Understand the purpose of the Microsoft Audience feature when using the News web part in Jint. ​
• Know how to use the Audience feature for the News web part. ​
• Learn to assign a preferred audience to a specific content. ​

Audience overview

What is an Audience? 

An Audience is a Microsoft notion that defines the population targeted by a content. The content can be anything that is created, shared, shown, and on which you managed the access. The target population is defined by an Entra ID group.

When to use Audience for News? 

When the contributor wants to target the news items to a specific user audience on the SharePoint site. 

Why is it useful? 

It allows the contributor to choose which user groups will have the privilege to view specific content. Content targeting helps to improve the user experience of the site by reducing redundant information and providing content that everyone needs. ​

NOTE: This feature does not prohibit access to the specific content, but rather assigns the privilege to some of the user groups. Meaning, the rest of the organization may find the information of the content in other means if needed. 

Microsoft Entra ID

What is Entra ID ? 

Entra ID is the Microsoft 365 identity service that provides single sign-on, multifactor authentication and conditional access to guard against cybersecurity attacks. When you create a SharePoint site, a Microsoft 365 group will automatically be created where you can allow user access to the site. The created groups are replicated in Entra ID groups. 

In All groups, you can find the information of all user identities and the groups who are authorized to organize the enterprise. Go to Read about Microsoft Entra ID for more detail.

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Step-by-step guide 

1. Audience settings

This part covers where to find the Audience feature and how to edit it. 

Step 1: Go to Pages. 

Step 2: Open Settings by clicking on the cogwheel icon in the top right corner. Then click on Library settings. 

Step 3: Click on More library settings.

Step 4: Click on Audience targeting settings. 

Step 5: Check the box ​Enable audience targeting and click on OK. 

Step 6: Return to Site pages, notice that the Audience column has appeared. 

2. Assign an Audience to a News post in SharePoint

This part covers how to assign the Audience you want to target for a specific News post in SharePoint.  

Step 7: You can assign your Audience in two ways: 

a) Assign an Audience directly in the library :

1. Choose a SharePoint page. 
2. Open Details by clicking on the information icon in the top right corner.
3. Under Audience, enter a name or email address of the audience you wish to assign the news to. 

b) Assign an Audience in a SharePoint page:

1. Open a SharePoint page.
2. Click on Edit and then click on Page details.
3. Under Audience, enter a name or email address of the audience you wish to assign the page to. 

3. Display the Audience feed in the Jint News web part

This part explains how to display the Audience feed for a News web part. 

Step 8: Go to the desired page and add a News web part.

1. Click on edit the web part.
2. Activate the button, "Activate audience targeting".  

Notice that the News post, that was assigned to a different Audience group than yours, has disappeared from the news feed. It will appear for people that are part of those groups. 

The "Audience Communication" post has disappeared, because the user is not part of the Communication Entra ID group.