Setting audience for
Navigation Link seems to be pretty simple task. Yet one day I created dedicated
SharePoint group for audience to global navigation item leading to other site
collection and … it did not work.
SharePoint audience group
had one member only: it was AD security group. It occurred that SharePoint audience
group needed “Restricted Read” permission for the site containing navigation
item. This was strange for me, because all the members of the AD security group
had permissions even of higher level for this site. Well… another tricky SharePoint
thing.
You can ask why not to
grant permission directly to the AD group? Yes, I did it and it worked. But
then I discovered that AD group was sort of unrecognizable for SharePoint:
And it still worked
but to change the Navigation Link I had to specify the AD group again!
It was
annoying enough to select solution with SharePoint group rather.
