administrators often need to test applications from an end users perspective servicely provides the ability for a user with administrative privileges to impersonate other users in the system as a result, only administrators can use this feature impersonating a user administrators will have access to an ‘impersonate’ option from the user menu in the menu bar you can then select the user you want from the ‘select user’ list, or from the ‘recent impersonations’ list, and select ‘impersonate’ the application will reload and display as the selected user stopping impersonation to exit from the impersonation, a ‘clear impersonation’ option will be presented in place of the original ‘impersonate’ button auditing while impersonation is active, all system activity will appear to come from the user being impersonated the exception is that all the audit history records will be recorded as having been created by an impersonated user disabling impersonation if required, impersonation can be disabled on an instance by setting the application property ‘ system impersonation disabled ' to 'true’ restrictions impersonation has the following restrictions a user must have the ‘ administrator ’ role to impersonate other users a user with the ‘ administrator ' role can not be impersonated