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(Apr 23, 2012)

Release notes: - Tiny UI enhancements.

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License: N/A
Works with:
  • activeCollab 2.1
  • activeCollab 2.3
  • activeCollab 3.0.x beta
Author: Stas Kuzma
Homepage: http://www.uswebstyle.com/activecollab.html#12
ShadowViewer is a tool to gain any users access without logout and login process. You can just click on ShadowViewer button at People->Company->User profile or Choose User at Company page from the slect box and then go back to administrator by clicking on “Back to Admin” link at the top bar. You can test user roles and access control while setting up your system to provide specific groups of users certain rights and check it with click of a button saving your time passing numerous clicks and page refreshes.

Note: This features available only for administrator’s group and can’t be set to other user groups.

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How it works?

For example, you are setting up the system for your or other company. Each company has it’s workflow, so the roles can vary from company to company providing needed rights to set user groups.

Open Admin->Roles and set rights to any user group. Go to People->Certain Company->Certain profile and click on ShadowViewer button or at Company page select user from “Login as” list and click go button. Now you are logged in as user and can check all rights. When you want to go back to administrator, click on “Back to Admin” at the top-right corner to change Roles if required.

So you see that you pass several steps:
# Logout Administrator profile
# Login user’s profile
# Logout user’s profile
# Login Administrator’s profile

You don’t even need to know user’s password that would give you advantage over current system when you set up roles.

Comments

avatar Nathan S. 2010-05-15 10:40
I was dreaming about this functionality, and now we have it—- the peace of mind is definitely worth the small price tag on this module. Now I know exactly what a client or team member sees, I changed some permission settings on people in my projects after my first use of ShadowViewer. I would highly recommend it to any ActiveCollab administrator—- it may just prolong your life, if you are always worrying about who can see and access what—and from a customer service perspective it’s great to experience your projects from the clients view so you can improve on their experience as well, great for troubleshooting why they can’t see something… oops… no permission to see Pages :)
avatar Erik 2011-02-11 5:04
This should be built-in :|

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