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Audience Targeting for News not working at Hub Site level
We have a Hub site and are pulling in news from sites associated with the Hub. I have set targeted audiences on those news articles and have tested the functionality on the sites themselves - the au...
Just wanted to add my voice here to the many. For us it seems to be some issue with Hub site inclusion.
Our setup: We have a Hub site and a child site that is an authoritative news site. Putting a news webpart on the home page of the child and turning on Audience Targeting - that news webpart respects the audiences and hides news stories accordingly. Putting a news webpart on the home page of the Hub site, telling it to include news from all hub sites, and turning on Audience Targeting - that news webpart does not respect audiences and shows everything. The audiences we are using are AAD groups (not SP Security groups).
We have waited 24 hours, disabled and re-enabled audience. Removed and re-added to the hub. It consistently works if the news webpart is only looking at it's own site, but the moment you add any other site in the hub, it ignores the audiences entirely.
Our setup: We have a Hub site and a child site that is an authoritative news site. Putting a news webpart on the home page of the child and turning on Audience Targeting - that news webpart respects the audiences and hides news stories accordingly. Putting a news webpart on the home page of the Hub site, telling it to include news from all hub sites, and turning on Audience Targeting - that news webpart does not respect audiences and shows everything. The audiences we are using are AAD groups (not SP Security groups).
We have waited 24 hours, disabled and re-enabled audience. Removed and re-added to the hub. It consistently works if the news webpart is only looking at it's own site, but the moment you add any other site in the hub, it ignores the audiences entirely.
- We're experiencing this exact same issue with a client. In our case, the client is using Active Directory security groups synced to AAD. Interestingly, in my demo tenant, Audience Targeting works exactly as it says on the box when the groups being used in targeting are M365 Groups.
- I had a similar issue recently but wasn't audiences, i joined a site to another hub and it continued to show up on news on the original hub site, the only thing i did recently that was different was there was an approval flow to join the new hub, everything in sharepoint says its joined / associated to the new site but news still thinks its part of the hub for some reason. I have selected all sites in the hub with tick boxes and the site doesn't show but if i use all sites in the hub radio option it shows up again. So may have to exclude it from search and remove from hub and try it again at some point.
