Impersonation

Users who are members of the MI Data Administrator or MI Grant system security role can 'impersonate' a user with a different (less privileged) system or database security role for testing purposes.

While you are impersonating a role, you can access only the MI Viewer features and data available to users who are members of that role.

Impersonation tools are accessed from Settings > Impersonation:

  1. On the toolbar, click Settings and then click the Impersonation tab.
  2. Under ''System user roles to impersonate', select a system security role.
  3. Under 'Database user roles to impersonate', select a database and a database security role, if implemented in the selected database.
  4. For Read or Write roles, you can specify the required access control permissions by selecting/clearing the check boxes.
  5. Click Perform Impersonation.

You can now use MI Viewer with the access restrictions that you have specified. A warning is displayed at the top of the main page to remind you that you are working in "impersonation mode" and  operating with restricted privileges, for example:

To restore your normal Granta MI privileges

  1. Click the Click here to change restrictions link in the warning displayed at the top of the main page in MI Viewer to open the Impersonation page again, for example:
  2. Click Stop Impersonation.