Can an impersonified person also respond to blog comments?

We allow other people impersonify other users to create blogs. Is it possible to have responses done to those blogs by the impersonified person as opposed to a person, who has been given permission to imperonsify the user.

Example: Jim has permission to impersonify VP Bob for blog posts.

Blog post goes out and we want replies to comments to come from VP Bob, instead of being shown to come from Jim.

In summary, we want impersonification to work for the blog post as well as for blog responses.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member

    By "impersonify", are you referring to the ability to set the author of a blog post in the Options when writing the post?

    If so, there is a separate feature known as Impersonation that could be utilized to post comments as that user. This does require the ghost commenter to have both the Impersonate User site permission and Manage Membership permission. These permissions could be granted to a special role that the ghost commenter is assigned to - but it will allow that person to have access to more member-related administration privileges than just impersonation, potentially more than desired. So make sure that you trust this user. (Usually this feature would be used in more of a security/debugging/testing context, but it does allow actions like commenting.)

  • Thanks,  . We are using this tool. Does this allow the person to switch between posting on their own behalf and post on the impersonified behalf? If so, we will move forward down that patch.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member in reply to oloera

    While impersonating, every action the user takes is done as if it was the user they are impersonating. In order to switch back to actions for their own account, they would need to stop Impersonating (the option is located where the Logout button normally would be).

    Beware also that this feature lets the user impersonate *any* user, not just the author. If this level of admin access isn't feasible, then your requirement is still possible, but would require customization to the related widgets to handle an option to run the create command as a different user, for instance posting with the Rest-Impersonate-User header (along with related permission checks such as ensuring the user being impersonated is a blog author, etc.)

  • Thank you. We will use this with extreme caution.