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Created on Apr 29, 2025

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Making testing easier ("impersonation" of another user)

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

When we test new designs out, it turns out that it is a big pain to set priviledges/user groups correctly. Typically the ones doing testing have broad access rights, but for testing they should have similar access as "real users".  This is especially painful when testing the workflows - there might be four different persons involved, each with separate profiles.  And none of the profiles have as broad access as we do. So either for testing we need to find four volunteers with the right profiles (close to impossible) or we have to reconfigure our own profiles so that they match what is needed.  And after testing is done... that needs to be reverted. The same process may repeat multiple times, and it needs to be done exactly right - one "admin" level permission left in place might lead us to believe a design works whereas it really does not.

Thus I'd like to propose that an admin could temporarily "take on the role of some other user" - that way they can mimic exactly what that other user sees and is able to do.  They would lose their normal priviledges for the duration, of course.  Then they could at will (e.g. in their profile section) revert back.

I've encountered this approach in some online games, where admin can examine a bug by 'acting as a specific player' - not taking over the user, but copying all properties.

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