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Pam DeLung
Dec 11, 2019Copper Contributor
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...
JoshCook
Feb 08, 2023Copper Contributor
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.
sduckhorn
Feb 09, 2026Occasional Reader
Hey,
I have the same problem for our Hub Site. I have Audience Targeting enabled on the Hub Site and the associated sites. I use a News Widget and enabled Audience Targeting in this widget. It was working in the past until now while "all sites" radio button was enabled in the widget. I tried to change it to "selected sites" and select all sites in my hub network, but it still does not seem to work.
Does anyone have a working solution he/she can offer? I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!