Trigger an impersonation start event

[Community Alums]

Can we trigger an impersonation start event when a particular group user is impersonated?

[XvE]

I see a lot of people trying to run business rules off of the created event, but nobody seems to mention the ImpersonateEvaluator Script Include.

Depending on why you would want to send a notification, you can generate your own event in the ImpersonateEvaluator SI, or even return false if they shouldnt be allowed to impersonate that user.

The advantage I see in doing it this way, is you don't have to have a business rule be skipped for thousands upon thousands of events, but simply run the code when someone impersonates them.

[Mark Manders]

With the big downside that you are changing a script include which causes technical debt and possible issues on every patch/upgrade of the system.

[XvE]

This feels like you haven't actually checked the ImpersonateEvaluator script include.

It has one function and all it does is return true:

var ImpersonateEvaluator = Class.create();

ImpersonateEvaluator.prototype = {

    initialize: function() {},

    type: 'ImpersonateEvaluator',

    canImpersonate: function(currentUser, impersonatedUser) {

        return true;

    }

This script include is meant to be edited so that you can customize who can impersonate when.