This article contains information about the Links for You and News for You Web Parts in the private view of My Site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. It discusses how to add listings that are targeted to specific audiences to the Links for You and the News for You Web Parts.

Overview

The private view of My Site contains a personalized view of the portal site and of the documents, the sites, and the people that are found in the portal site. The private view contains content that is targeted to the user based on the user's membership in a particular audience. When a user clicks My Site to view their personal site, content that is targeted for the audiences that the user belongs to is displayed on the site. The Links for You Web Part displays links to items that are targeted to audiences that the user is a member of. The News for You Web Part displays news items that are targeted to audiences that the user is a member of.

To target content to personal sites, you must add the listing to the area that you want, and then target the listing to the audience that you want. Content that you add to the Targeted links of the My Site area appears in the Links for You Web Part. Content that you add to the News area appears in the News for You Web Part.

Add a listing to the "Links for You" Web Part on My Site

To add and to target a listing to the Links for You Web Part, follow these steps:

1. Connect to the portal site, and then click Site Settings.
2. On the Site Settings page, under Portal Site Content, click Manage targeted links on My Site.
3. On the All Listings:Targeted links on My Site page, click Add Listing.
4. On the Add Listing page, in the Title and Description area, type a title and a description for the listing.
5. In the Content area, specify the source of the listing.
6. In the Group area, assign the listing to the group that you want.
7. If you want to associate the listing with an image, in the Image area, specify the image that you want.
8. In the Audience area, specify the audience or audiences that you want to assign to the listing.
9. Click OK.

Add a listing to the "News for You" Web Part on My Site

To add and to target a news listing to the News for You Web Part, follow these steps:

1. Connect to the portal site, and then click News.
2. On the News page, in the Actions area, click Add News.
3. On the Add News page, in the Title and Description area, type a title and a description for the news listing.
4. In the Content area, specify the source of the news listing.
5. In the Dates area, specify a start date and an expiration date (if applicable) for the news listing.
6. In the Group area, assign the news listing to the group that you want.
7. If you want to associate the listing with an image, in the Image area, specify the image that you want.
8. In the Audience area, specify the audience or audiences that you want to assign to the news listing.
9. Click OK.

For more information about how to manage personal sites and how to manage targeted content for personal sites, see the "Managing Personal Sites" topic in the "Administration" section of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide (Administrator's Help.chm) is located in the Docs folder in the root of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD-ROM.

For more information about how to use audiences to target content and how to target an item to an audience, see the "Managing Audiences" topic in the "Managing Portal Site" section of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Help documentation (User's Help.chm). To view the Help documentation, click Help on a portal site page, or see the User's Help.chm file that is located in the Docs folder in the root of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD-ROM.

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