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642 Part VII: Information Management in SharePoint Products and Technologies
can schedule audience compilation during offline hours. If you’re using scheduled
profile imports, you should schedule audience compilation after profile imports
have taken place. You can also start a compilation manually at any other time if you
must update an audience before the next scheduled compilation.
When you compile an audience, the property values in user profile and membership
in distribution lists, security groups, and reporting structure are checked to
see if they match the audience rules you have created. Users that match the audience
rules for an audience are included in that audience and receive content targeted
to that audience.
From the Manage Audiences page, you can start a compilation. You can also
view the compilation status and most recent compilation time and see the number
of uncompiled audiences.
To specify compilation schedule
You can set compilation schedule from the Manage Audiences page.
1. On the Manage Audiences page, click Specify compilation schedule.
2. On the Specify Compilation Schedule page, click Enable scheduling to turn
on audience scheduling.
3. Select a start time from the Start at drop-down list. To schedule compilations
at this time every day, select Every day. To schedule compilations on certain
days of the week, select Every week on and then select the days you want to
compile audiences. To schedule compilations once a month, select Every
month on this date and then select the day of the month on which to compile
audiences.
4. Click OK.
Viewing Audience Membership
You can check the membership of an audience to see if the audience is targeting the
right users. This is particularly helpful after adding or editing an audience, after adding
or editing audience rules, or after changing the property or organizational structure
used by an audience rule. The audience membership summary shows the last time the
audience was compiled and the number of members in the audience at that time.
To view audience members
You can determine the members of an audience.
■ On the View Audiences page, click the audience whose membership you want
to view and then click View Membership.
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On the View Audience Properties page for an audience, in the Audience
Member section, click View membership.