Hi, Firstly, I am not an experienced SP user so apologies if I use incorrect terminology. I have multiple teams (NOT Groups as defined in Sharepoint, just sets of users in different parts if the business) who have the following requirements: 1) All users within each team need the same set (20-30) of Private views 2) The different teams need similar views, but filtered to their own areas. Is it possible for a user to create a Personal View of data and for this to then be used as a "Template" for other users? This would let me create a set of views for one user in a team and then copy these to all other users in that team. This template could then be modified for the other teams. I have been able to do this with Public Views but do not want to go down this route if I can avoid it due to teh number of views I need to build. TIA Dave

Hi Dave, You might want to look into using SharePoint Audiences. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/introduction-to-targeting-content-on-a-sharepoint-site-to-specific-audiences-HA010243222.aspx?CTT=1 Regards Brad

So far we only know he has "sharepoint". Audiences are only available with MOSS 2007 not with WSS 3.0.SP 2010 "FAQ" (mainly useful links): http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/default.aspx WSS3/MOSS FAQ (FAQ and Links) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/default.aspx Both also have links to extensive book lists and to (free) on-line chapters

That's not entirely correct. Audiences are supported in WSS 3.0 just not through the GUI. Programmatically, you can set up audiences on web parts. I use powershell or a feature. Look into the AuthorizationFilter property. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webpartpages.webpart.authorizationfilter(v=office.12).aspx By supplying a global audiences, AD accounts, and/or a list of sharepoint groups, each separated by ';;' you can effectly achieve audiences in WSS. You can even do this on spnavigationnodes but I think you had to run as system account. Brian Bedard, MCTS - pioneeringsharepoint.blogspot.com - Twitter:@tigertoy