Personalizing Web Parts

Personalization is a standard SharePoint functionality which permits each user of a site to personalize the pages and the elements in them that he/she has access to. These Web Parts are designed to permit personalization. This permits a user to configure the Web Parts including Filters, Sort By and Group By settings and these settings will persist for the user. To personalize an element, it first needs to have the corresponding AllowPersonalization property for that element set to true (If not present, you need to add it). For example the Welcome page (Default.aspx) of a top level site in a Publishing site collection has this property set to false for all Web Part Zones, meaning that, in order to enable Personalization, it is first necessary to set it to true using SharePoint Designer.

Once this is done, it is possible to personalize a page similar to any SharePoint page. See the SharePoint documentation from Microsoft for detailed instructions.