Allowing Personalization in SharePoint 2010
by Steven Ng on June 23, 2010
SharePoint personalization allows users a level of customization by adding or removing web parts to their page. To test this you should have two different user accounts. Here are steps I took to get this working:
1. Open up SharePoint Designer 2010 and edit a page layout that has web part zones like “BlankWebPartPage.aspx”.
2. Locate the ”
3. Make sure your SharePoint test page is using the layout page with web part zones set with “AllowPersonalization=true”.
4. Logged in as the current user, click on the username in the top right corner and select “Personalize this page”.
5. Add 1 or 2 web parts which will only be visible to this current user, let’s call this “User A”. Save and publish this page if necessary.
6. Next login as “User B” and you shouldn’t see the web part(s) for “User A”. You can click on the top right username again and select “Personalize this page”.
7. Add a web part only visible for “User B”. Save and publish again.
8. The bottom line is that both users will have their own custom personalized page.
One comment
Hi Steven, I have a Publishing site for my homepage. On this home page I have few webparts that have many custom properties. If “user A” login he/she will set properties according to his/her preference. So, my question is – is the personlization restricted to mySite only??? I have 20,000 users and don’t want to create mysite for every user. Can I have custom webpart personalized for individual users in a publishing site? If yes, then how?
by Khushi on July 13, 2011 at 9:44 am. #