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■ To view a different page of multiple page audience membership, click the
page number in the Go to page drop-down list.
Managing Audience Rules
Audience rules determine who is or is not a member of an audience. An audience
includes all the members who match the audience rules when the audience is compiled.
Changes to audience rules do not change the membership of the audience
until the next time the audience is compiled.
To ensure that an audience is current, you must compile the audience after
adding, editing, or deleting an audience rule. Audiences also must be compiled if
the values of public properties used by the audience rule change or new users are
added, even if the audience rules itself is not changed.
You can define audience rules based on profile properties, organizational hierarchy,
distribution lists, or Windows NT security groups. Using audience rules, you
can specify audience membership using complex expressions. Audience rules use
simple queries to include or exclude users from membership in an audience. Each
rule includes an operand, an operator, and a value.
The operand is the user or the property you want to include in the query for
this rule. The operator indicates how users compared to the value should be queried
to include or exclude them from the audience. The value is the point of comparison
used by the query.
For example, using the following audience rule you could build an audience
based on distribution list membership in combination with the value of a profile
property:
MEMBER OF “IT Staff” (DL)
AND
Office CONTAINS “Tokyo”
To add audience rule
Define audience membership based on rules.
1. On the View Audience Properties page, in the Audience Rules section, click
Add rule.
2. On the Add Audience Rule page, click User to add a rule based on distribution
list membership, security group, or reporting structure, or click Property to
create a rule based on a user property.
3. If you clicked Property, click the relevant property in the drop-down list.
4. In the Operator drop-down list, click an operator to indicate how you want to
compare the user or property with a given value.