Proxy as another user in LSF9 Portal and/or EMSS

Do you mean you want to execute AGS/Transaction or DME/Data calls by impersonating another user?

Hi John,

Yes and no. I want to mimic another user's UI experience in Portal/EMSS - so have the screen react the way it would for that employee. For EMSS, I assume this would basically mean overriding the authUser.Employee variable (without using a web debugger) which would generally cause AGS/DME to pull that employee's data.

Thanks

There are two parts to this equation...the security (roles) vs. the identity. What you are suggesting wouldn't work for either one, since the AGS/DME servlets don't pay any attention to the authUser.Employee variable; they operate at a deeper layer than that. To do what you are trying to do, and assuming this is just for limited/periodic testing, here's what I do. Create a test user, assign the same roles and groups as the user you want to mimic, and assign the XXXX_EMPLOYEE identity you want to mimic; when you are done, just delete the identity. Assuming you have access to Lawson Security, this will be much easier...

I guess I was thinking of overriding the Identity without changing the authenticated user. I'm not concerned about security access, since I have modified Admin access (i.e. everything but security) so I already have access to all the data, and full testing would be done by the business using test users. I really just wanted a way for the UI side to associate me with a different identity so I could quickly and easily test different screens as different employee types without having to have multiple test users. I was sure I'd seen this before, but maybe I'm thinking of another system. Thanks anyway!