As an admin, view Port as…
With View as, Port admins can instantly see the platform through any user’s permissions to validate access, debug RBAC issues, and troubleshoot confidently - securely and without impersonation.
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our community’s most requested feature: View as - which lets Org Admins experience Port exactly as any user in their organization.
It’s a simple, secure way to reproduce permission issues, validate RBAC, and troubleshoot without relying on screenshots or troubleshooting logs. This is Port’s most-requested feature - more than 150 votes on Canny.
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Start a View as session from the user entity or the top menu and you’ll immediately see Port with that member’s effective permissions.
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Security is our guiding principle. View as isn’t impersonation. Admins act with the user’s product permissions, but every action in a View as session is attributed to the operating admin. Audit logs indicate the action was performed by an admin viewing as the user.
Screenshot 3: Audit log: only the audit log title and line the one row from the table that is interesting
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We shipped this as an MVP to help admins move faster and reduce friction: reproduce bugs, validate permissions changes immediately, and troubleshoot where it matters.
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