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Impersonating users

Sometimes you need to see Admire as someone in a role sees it, to check what a role can access, preview a coachee’s view, or sanity-check your setup before inviting anyone. Impersonation lets an admin do that with a placeholder person.

A staff profile's Edit button with its menu open: a Manage group listing Link User, Impersonate, Disable Member, and Remove Member, with Impersonate highlighted, above an Actions group.
Open a placeholder person's profile and expand the Manage menu: Impersonate is right there.

Only placeholder people can be impersonated: people you’ve added without inviting. As an admin, open a placeholder person’s profile and choose Impersonate from the Manage menu. Admire shows you the platform as that person, with the same navigation, permissions, skills, and data they would see. Everything is scoped to their access, so it’s a faithful preview of their experience. While you’re impersonating, Admire frames the screen in gold as a constant reminder that you’re viewing as someone else. Stop impersonating to return to your own account.

Create a placeholder in a role, impersonate them, and you can see precisely what someone in that role will get before they ever receive an invite. It’s the easiest way to validate roles, skills, and visibility while you set the organization up.