Using SharePoint subsites and audience to target content... how?

Question

I would like to show different tabs in the top navigation of a SharePoint site depending on what 'Audience' the user is in. I can do this fine for pages but for subsites I cannot find an option. Googling reveals a work around, hiding the subsite and adding a link to the subsite URL.

There has to be a better way than this!

Answer 1

The only way to do this is by actually using Usergroups in Sharepoint. Audiences are nothing more than a form of display:none; like in CSS. If you know the URL, you still can get access. SPWeb knows only about allowing security objects (SPUSer / SPGroup) access to it...