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Use the private view of My Site

The private view of your personal site provides a personalized view of the portal site and the documents, sites, and people found in the portal site.

The private view contains content targeted to you based on your membership in a particular audience. For example, if you are a new employee, you might find links to key training resources. From the private view, you can also organize and access your documents, view and manage your alerts and alert results, link to interesting people and information, view your e-mail inbox, and maintain a calendar—all from a single place.

The private view of the home page for your personal site includes several Web Parts for organizing information specific to you. By default, these Web Parts include:

• My Calendar   Meetings and appointments scheduled in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

  Note  You must provide the address of an Outlook Web Access server to use My Calendar.

• My Links Summary   A summary of links that you have created on your personal site for regular use. To add a link, click Add new link. Links in this list that you share also appear on the public view of your personal site.
• Links for You   Links to items targeted by audience managers in your organization to certain audiences. Links for the audiences to which you belong appear in this Web Part.
• My Alerts Summary   All of the alerts you receive are listed here. To view the item that sent the alert, click on the alert in the list. To change the properties of a specific alert, click the arrow next to the alert in the list. To manage all of your alerts, click Manage Alerts in the Select Action section of the action pane.
• News for You   News items are targeted by the audience managers in your organization to certain audiences. The news items for the audiences to which you belong appear in this Web Part.

You can add, remove, or modify Web Parts for the home page of your personal site just like you do for any other Web Part Page. For more information on modifying pages on your personal site, see Modify pages on My Site.

The private view of your personal site home page also includes:

• Action pane links to create lists and pages and manage alerts for your personal site:

  Create a list

  1. In the action pane, in the Action section, click Create List.
  2. On the Create List page, click the icon for the type of list you want to create.
  3. Type in information for the properties of the list, according to the instructions provided by Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

     Note  If you select Yes in the Navigation section for a list, the list appears in the My Lists section of the action pane.

  Create a page

  This link allows you to create Web Part Pages for your personal site.

  1. In the action pane, in the Action section, click Create Page.
  2. On the New Web Part Page page, in the Name text box, type a name for the page.
  3. In the Layout section, click the layout option you want to use for this page.
  4. In the Save Location section, in the Document Library list, click the document library to which you want to save this new Web page.

     Note  My Pages is selected by default.

  Manage alerts

  • Click Manage Alerts in the Action section of the action pane.
• My Lists   Provides links to all of the lists on your personal site that are not hidden. To view hidden lists, click Documents and Lists on the top link bar of your personal site. For more information about documents and lists, see Create or customize lists, libraries, and pages.
• My Pages   Provides links to the pages on your personal site that are in the My Pages document library.

To switch to the private view when you are viewing the public view, click Private in the Select View section of the action pane.

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