Two ways in: as a role and crew (nobody in particular), or as a named man, which carries his identity into anything that records who did something. A banner sits across the top the whole time with a Stop button. Close the tab and it ends.
Also called: see what my crew sees · view as a user · preview a role · test permissions
Look at the app as the crew leader who says he cannot see the job
Pick a role and a crew, or a named man, and the app redraws as he sees it. Permission systems fail quietly — you find out a setting is wrong when a man calls from a site at seven in the morning and you cannot reproduce a thing from your own account. This turns that into a five-second check.
Anything done as a named man is recorded as his
Viewing as a specific member carries his identity into the places that record who did something, so an acceptance signed while you are in his view is signed by him. Sharing a login to test instead is how a signature ends up attributed to whoever happened to be holding the phone.
Your look-around does not pollute the numbers
Usage tracking is off while you are viewing as somebody else, so ten minutes checking what the crew sees does not come back as that crew being active on the app. Numbers you cannot trust because the owner keeps testing in them are numbers nobody opens.
- 1Pick a role and crew, or a named man, from the View As menu.
- 2The app redraws as he sees it — same screens, same buttons, same gaps.
- 3A banner across the top says whose view you are in.
- 4Press Stop, or close the tab, and you are back to your own.
Permission systems fail quietly. You find out a crew leader cannot see the checklist when he calls from a job site at seven in the morning, and you cannot reproduce a thing from your own account. This turns an access question into a five-second check. It is tied to the tab on purpose — an owner who wanders off still seeing the app as a worker, and files something from there, is a mess you find months later.
- Permission changes could not be verified without a second account.
- Support conversations about missing screens were guesswork.
