Rock U - People - Impersonation

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As an administrator in Rock or simply someone with different permissions, your Rock instance probably looks different than other people's instances. Now if you're ever wanting to troubleshoot or see what it looks in someone else's eyes, you can use impersonation to easily mimic another person, what their security roles look , what their interface is and more. So let's look into this handy feature and how to use it right now. So to impersonate Ted, first of all, we're gonna go to the person bio block settings and make sure enable impersonation says yes. Then if you wanna pick a specific starting page for impersonation, which is especially helpful if the person you're impersonating doesn't have access to the internal site, then you can pick a starting page that's on the external site, but we're gonna leave this alone for now. And from here, we're gonna click actions then impersonate. And you'll actually notice that nothing happened. And the reason for that is because we have Ted under a protection profile of extreme. And our settings we have out of the box, which you can access through admin tools settings, then security settings, have people that are in an extreme protection profile, you aren't allowed to use personal tokens on them. And what that means is essentially you can't impersonate them. So I'm gonna remove this for now just for the example, though it can be dangerous. And we're going to go back to Ted's profile and we're going to click impersonate. And there we go. Now we're logged in as Ted, no longer as Alicia Marble, but one thing is different here. First of all, we're viewing this as Ted would. We don't have as many options over here, different security, but the difference is when you come down to your admin toolbar, you can click restore Alicia Marble. There we go. Right back to Alicia Marble's profile. Okay. I hope your mind is completely expanded now that you've seen someone's Rock instance from their point of view rather than your own. Just think about all the ways that this can be helpful for you in your ministry. Thanks for watching this video and have a great day.