{"id":5823,"date":"2013-07-15T14:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T03:38:51","slug":"how-to-add-sign-in-as-different-user-in-sharepoint-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/how-to-add-sign-in-as-different-user-in-sharepoint-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add Sign in as Different User in SharePoint 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, guys, maybe you want to sign as another user to test, in Sharepoint 2007 and Sharepint 2010 we can do this easily, however, Sign as Different User interface is hidden by default in SharePoint ?2013. Next, I will introduce one way to show Sign as Different User interface.<br \/>\nFirst, enter following path: <\/p>\n<pre>C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Web Server Extensions\\15\\TEMPLATE\\CONTROLTEMPLATES<\/pre>\n<p>Then, find the file &#8220;Welcome.ascx&#8221;<br \/>\nAt last, add following XML node after the XML node which id=&#8221;ID_RequestAccess&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nText=\"&lt;%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuser%&gt;\"\r\nDescription=\"&lt;%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuserdescription%&gt;\"\r\nMenuGroupId=\"100\"\r\nSequence=\"100\" UseShortId=\"true\" \/&gt;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Just like following picture display<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5834\" alt=\"Show Sign as Different User in SharePoint2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013.png\" width=\"803\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013.png 803w, https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013-300x68.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, return you site and refresh the page, click people dropdown control, you will see Sign as Different User interface same as following picture<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5833\" alt=\"Show Sign as Different User in SharePoint2013_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013_2.png\" width=\"280\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013_2.png 280w, https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Show-Sign-as-Different-User-in-SharePoint2013_2-194x120.png 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, guys, maybe you want to sign as another user to test, in Sharepoint 2007 and Sharepint 2010 we can do this easily, however, Sign as Different User interface is hidden by default in SharePoint ?2013. Next, I will introduce one way to show Sign as Different User interface. First, enter following path: C:\\Program Files\\Common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,460,480],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}