Enable Audience Targeting for SharePoint list using PowerShell

In this article we will be seeing how to enable audience targeting for SharePoint list using PowerShell.

Go to List => List Settings => General Settings => Audience targeting settings.

You can add the audience targeting field by enabling the "Enable audience targeting".

Using C#

1. using System;

2. using System.Collections.Generic;

3. using System.Linq;

4. using System.Text;

5. using Microsoft.SharePoint;

6. using System.Xml;

7. namespace AudienceTargeting

8. {

9. class Program

11. {

12. static void Main(string[] args)       

13. {

14. using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://serverName:1111/"))           

15. {

16. using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)               

17. {                 

18. SPList list=web.Lists["cl"];

19. XmlElement fldElement = new XmlDocument().CreateElement("Field");                   

20. fldElement.SetAttribute("ID", "61cbb965-1e04-4273-b658-eedaa662f48d");                   

21. fldElement.SetAttribute("Type", "TargetTo");                   

22. fldElement.SetAttribute("Name", "TargetTo");                   

23. fldElement.SetAttribute("DisplayName", "Target Audiences");                   

24. fldElement.SetAttribute("Required", "FALSE");                    

25. list.Fields.AddFieldAsXml(fldElement.OuterXml);                   

26. list.Update();                

27. }           

28. }       

29. }   

30. }

31. }
    

Using PowerShell

1. $site=Get-SPSite "http://serverName:1111/"

2. $web=$site.RootWeb

3. $list=$web.Lists["cl"]

4. $xmldata = new-object "System.Xml.XmlDocument"

5. $fldElement =$xmldata.CreateElement("Field")

6. $fldElement.SetAttribute("ID", "61cbb965-1e04-4273-b658-eedaa662f48d")

7. $fldElement.SetAttribute("Type", "TargetTo")

8. $fldElement.SetAttribute("Name", "TargetTo")

9. $fldElement.SetAttribute("DisplayName", "Target Audiences")

10. $fldElement.SetAttribute("Required", "FALSE")

11. $list.Fields.AddFieldAsXml($fldElement.OuterXml)

12. $list.Update()