Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience Namespace
Contains classes that create Audiences and target data to a specific Audience.
In addition to rules-based audiences, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 supports targeting based on SharePoint groups and distribution list (DL) memberships. SharePoint Server 2010 also provides the ability to target content to the list item level, rather than just to the list level.
Note
SharePoint Server 2010 provides a Web service that finds all SharePoint sites that are targeted to a particular user. For more information, see How to: Use the Published Links Web Service.
Working with the New Namespace for the Audience Object Model
In SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Audience namespace is used to work with audiences. In SharePoint Server 2010, the Audience object model is implemented in the Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience namespace in Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.dll. This new namespace provides object model support for the new functionality in SharePoint Server 2010.
The Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Audience namespace still exists for backward compatibility. Your applications and tools written in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 using the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Audience namespace should still work in SharePoint Server 2010. However, note that they may not behave as expected, specifically with the new features. For example, if you use the APIs in Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Audience, you can only work with rules-based audiences. Therefore, if you are writing new applications or upgrading old applications, you should use the new Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience namespace in Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.dll. All the classes in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Audience namespace have been deprecated, and you will get a warning every time you use a class or method in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Audience namespace.
Example 2: Getting the AudienceManager Object in SharePoint Server
The AudienceManager object is the top-level object in the Audience object model. You can get an AudienceManager object in SharePoint Server 2010 by using the syntax shown in the following code example. Replace servername with an actual value and add any code that you might need before using this example.
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("https://servername"))
{
ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
AudienceManager audManager = new AudienceManager(context);
//your code here
}
Example 2: Personalized Portals
The following code example shows how to target list items to a particular audience.
AudienceLoader audienceLoader = AudienceLoader.GetAudienceLoader();
foreach (SPListItem listItem in list.Items)
{
// Get roles the list item is targeted to.
string audienceFieldValue = (string)listItem[k_AudienceColumn];
// Quickly check if the user belongs to any of those roles.
if (AudienceManager.IsCurrentUserInAudienceOf(audienceLoader, audienceFieldValue, false))
{
// is a member
}
else
{
// not a member
}
}
Classes
Class | Description | |
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Audience | Represents an audience on a SharePoint Server 2010 site. | |
AudienceAccountNameNotResolvedException | Represents an exception that is thrown when the Audience account name is not valid. | |
AudienceADImportException | Represents the exception thrown when an error occurs while getting data from Microsoft Active Directory directory service. | |
AudienceArgumentException | Represents the exception thrown when invalid data is supplied to the AudienceCollection and AudienceSiteCollection classes. | |
AudienceCollection | Represents a collection of audiences for a portal site. | |
AudienceCollection.AudienceEnumerator | Represents the enumerator for Audience objects in the AudienceCollection object. | |
AudienceConnectionException | Represents the exception thrown when an error occurs when connecting to the database. | |
AudienceDataValueOutOfRangeException | Represents an exception thrown when a data value is out of range. | |
AudienceDataWrongFormatException | Represents an exception that is thrown when the Audience data is in the wrong format. | |
AudienceDuplicateNameException | Represents the exception thrown when a user tries to create or rename an audience to a name that already exists in the database. | |
AudienceException | Represents the base class for audience exceptions. | |
AudienceExecutionException | Represents the exception thrown when an error occurs when executing an audience operation, such as creating, removing, or updating an audience. | |
AudienceGroupOperationException | Represents an exception thrown when an error is encountered in the audience while performing a group operation. | |
AudienceInCompilationException | Throws an exception when a user tries to change audience data while audience rules are compiling. | |
AudienceJob | Provides a method to start and stop full and incremental audience compilations | |
AudienceLeftContent | Represents the operand content of an audience rule. | |
AudienceManager | Represents the entry point for the audience classes. | |
AudienceNameDescriptionLengthException | Represents an exception that is thrown if the length of the audience name exceeds 50 characters or if the description exceeds 254 characters. | |
AudienceNameID | Represents a synopsis of information about an audience, such as the name and GUID, and whether the audience is still valid. | |
AudienceNoContentException | Represents an exception thrown by the AudienceManager object when an error is encountered while retrieving data. | |
AudienceNotExistException | Implements the exception thrown when an audience cannot be found in the database. | |
AudienceOperator | Represents the definition of an audience operator. | |
AudienceOperatorException | Represents the exception thrown by the Audience class and AudienceManager class when an operator error is encountered for a rule definition. | |
AudienceOwnerAccountNameLengthException | Represents an exception thrown when the length of the owner account name exceeds 400 characters. | |
AudienceRuleComponent | Represents one rule in an audience. | |
AudienceRuleLeftContentException | Represents the exception thrown when an error is encountered in the operand portion of an audience rule. | |
AudienceRuleRightContentException | Represents the exception thrown by the AudienceRuleComponent class when an error in encountered in the rule definition. | |
AudienceSite | Represents an entry point for accessing the audience associated with a portal site. | |
AudienceSiteCollection | Represents a collection of portal sites that are associated with a specific audience. | |
AudienceSiteCollection.AudienceSiteEnumerator | Enumerates sites in the AudienceSiteCollection class. | |
AudienceSiteInfo | Represents information for a specific instance of the AudienceSite class in addition to the Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext object associated with the portal site. | |
AudienceWrongAccountNameFormatException | Represents the exception that is thrown when the wrong account name format is encountered in an audience rule. | |
EmptyToolPaneControl | This class and its members are reserved for internal use and are not intended to be used in your code. | |
MembershipInfo | Stores information from Microsoft Active Directory directory service about a user or group. | |
UserInfo | Represents user information from a user's user profile, such as e-mail address and name. |
Enumerations
Enumeration | Description | |
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AudienceAccessRights | Represents the access rights one can have on audiences. | |
AudienceGroupOperation | Specifies the operations that can be performed on an audience that has more than one rule. | |
AudienceJobReturnCode | Indicates the status of the RunAudienceJob method call. | |
AudienceType | Represents the type of the audience. |