Audience targeting is a nice feature available in SharePoint Server to allow an administrator to hide and show webparts based on user permissions. A web part can be targeted to certain groups and be hidden for others. If you’re using SharePoint Server and the audience targetting box is missing when you edit a web part. You need to check the following.

1. If you’re using a list web part, for example, a document library web part, make sure that Audience Targetting is enabled on that list. You can go to list settings and click audience targetting.

2. Make sure that you properly configured Shared Services Provider on your Central Administration Site, otherwise it will not be shown.

NOTE: This is only applicable for SharePoint Server 2007, audience targeting for web parts are not available in WSS.

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