Emulate a user in PeopleSoft

When you log in as yourself, you usually are associated with your own EMPLID, which is specified in the PSOPRDEFN table.

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To emulate another user, you can go to

PeopleTools --> Securities --> User Profiles --> User Profiles

Locate your profile, then go to the ID tab, pull down dropdown ID Type, and choose Employee (assuming that's what you want). Then in the Employee Attribute Value field, enter/look up the employee you would like to emulate.

You may be getting a warning at this moment:

This is normal, because we are using someone else's ID here.


Log out and log back in, PeopleSoft will be using that employee ID to load data.

Note, PeopleSoft still uses your own roles/permissions, not those of the employee!!