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500 Part VI: Administration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
■ Display. This tab is used to control whether or not to exclude the area page
from the navigation bars, to determine the order in which to place the link on
the navigation bars, and to associate a custom image to show on the area page.
■ Search. This tab allows the administrator to set content created in this area to
be excluded from search results, as well as to configure whether the Topic
Assistant should suggest content links to be published for this area.
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Figure 18-11 The Search tab of the Change Settings page of an area
Manage Top-Level Lists and Document Libraries
Following this link takes administrators to the portal site’s Documents And Lists page
for the Home area, which allows them to create and view content lists just as any
Windows SharePoint Services site. Also, keep in mind that each area that is created
has its own set of content lists, as though it was its own team site that could be managed
by following the Manage Content link on the left-hand navigation bar under
Actions. See Chapter 16 for more details on list and content types.
Manage Targeted Links on My Site
Portal administrators can target content to the personal sites of portal users. Users
who click My Site on the navigation bar to view their personal site will see all the
content that is targeted to them for the audiences to which they belong through Web
Parts, such as the News For You or Links For You Web Parts.
Audiences are defined as users who meet certain criteria. Users are said to be
members of an audience if they meet that audience’s membership criteria. Criteria
examples defined when an audience is created include a user account’s group membership
or a user account’s property, such as Title or Department as stored in the
portal profile of the account.