# Impersonation

Impersonation lets humans pretend to be personas. That is, human participants can assume a different identity in the exercise environment:

* the training audience can use impersonation to post from a company social media account
* EXCON players can role-play stakeholders and respond to the training audience

| Benefit                                                                                       | Feature                                                                |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Dramatically reduces the cost of realism by ensuring that EXCON can roleplay as many personas | Preconfigure in the Editor                                             |
| Add dynamic and realistic content published by human players pretending to be a persona       | Change during live exercises if necessary in the Facilitator Dashboard |

### Impersonation and positions <a href="#impersonation-and-positions" id="impersonation-and-positions"></a>

Positions act as a link between personas and players.

When players are assigned a position, it allows them to impersonate any persona with that assigned position.

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The image below shows the relation in practice:

1. the position assigned to the persona (persona library)
2. the position assigned to a player (teams table - in the Configuration area)
3. the position table showing all positions available (and which personas are impersonable with the position)

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### Adding impersonation <a href="#adding-impersonation" id="adding-impersonation"></a>

{% stepper %}
{% step %}

### Select persona for impersonation

1. Go to the persona library and select intended persona
2. Select the "Positions that can impersonate this persona" drop-down
3. Select as many positions as needed (the positions that will impersonate this persona). If there are no positions in the drop-down, add a new position

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{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Navigate to Configuration and edit teams

1. Assign the position to a player
2. Positions are also shown in Configuration for ease of reference

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{% hint style="info" %}
For Facilitators to impersonate, they will also need to log in as a player on the left-hand side of the Facilitator Dashboard (player view)
{% endhint %}
{% endstep %}
{% endstepper %}

## Bulk impersonation editing

If you have a large exercise it will be more convenient and faster to assign positions via a spreadsheet.

{% stepper %}
{% step %}

### Select the spreadsheet menu

Click the spreadsheet icon and export the Persona Permissions sheet.

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{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Add and assign positions

The column in the spreadsheet to alter is the Permissions column. Adding a position in this column will enable the player with the same permission to impersonate the persona.

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{% hint style="warning" %}
Add a comma between multiple positions
{% endhint %}
{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Import the permissions sheet

Return to the spreadsheet menu and import the modified sheet.
{% endstep %}
{% endstepper %}