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title: "Audience rules"
slug: "audience-rules"
tags: ["Totara Platform", "Explainer", "Site Administrator"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:12Z
canonical: "totara.help/audience-rules"
---

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# Audience rules

When [creating dynamic audiences](/19/docs/create-a-dynamic-audience) you can use audience rules to determine which users are added to and removed from your audience.

Selecting the **Rule set** tab allows you to set rules which define the membership of the audience group. Rules are set up in groups called rule sets. A rule set can have multiple rules, and you can include multiple rule sets for each audience group.

## Automatically update membership

These options change the way that audience membership is updated based on when a user meets the audience rules. The configuration of these settings defines when a user should be added to or removed from an audience.

You can configure this based on the following checkbox options:

- Make a user a member when they meet rule set criteria
- Remove a user's membership when they no longer meet the rule set criteria

Unselecting both options will freeze membership until either (or both) of the options are changed.

### **Membership setting between every rule set**

This setting determines how the audience rules will behave if you define more than one rule set. It is based on the logical **AND** and **OR** operators.

- If set to **AND**, then a user will only be added to the audience if they satisfy the conditions of **all** of the rule sets (they will be omitted if they fail to satisfy even one rule set)
- If set to **OR**, then a user will be added to the audience if they satisfy the conditions of **any** of the rule sets (they only have to satisfy the conditions of a single rule set to be included)

Note that each rule set has its own separate logical operator to indicate the relationship between the rules within that rule set.

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