Is there a way for a trainer to “impersonate” a client (log in as them) in Adalo without knowing their password?

[Vladyslav]

I’m building a fitness app in Adalo where personal trainers need to view and update their clients’ exercise plans, weights, etc., from the client’s perspective. Ideally, they could hit a “View as Client” button and the app would behave exactly as if the client themselves had logged in—without ever exposing or storing plaintext passwords.

Is there any undocumented trick, workflow, or best practice in Adalo that would allow a trainer to “log in as” or “impersonate” their client—without refactoring every screen or exposing passwords? Any ideas or alternative patterns would be hugely appreciated!

[JareRamirez]

Hi Vlad!

There are many ways to do it, not exactly impersonating (which i dont really know how to do it).

Two simple ways i see are:

1 - Create a “Mini-CRM” where the personal trainer see his/her adepts and go to extra screens to edit info. That can be donde with a boolean in users where have Client on/off, Personal Trainer on/off and Admin on/off which is you. In this way you send each user to the designated dashboards/CRM.

2 - Create the booleans i have say before and put extra inputs whenever you want to change info and allow to being shown to the designated “permission” level.

EDIT: See, reveal, check users password may incur in an illegal action.

I hope it give you a hint about how to start.
Kind Regards
Jare Ramirez

[Vladyslav]

@Santiago

Hi, what I’m thinking is that you have a screen of my students, so when you enter “view student”, it takes you to a screen (with the same design as the student sees), then there you say “show me all the routines of the current student”, “show me the plans of the current student”, that is, when you click on the student, the current student goes and you can bring the information that is associated with the student.

• Yep this is probably the one, I’d just need to replicate relevant screens and there are not many, so shouldn’t be over complexed.

@Santiago

Another option (I don’t know if it’s the best, but it works), you create a registration form with 3 inputs: Name, Password, Repeat Password, and in the button, you set a condition that repeating the password must be equal to the password. If so, you can register… In the button, you perform the signup action and you can save it in a text field in the user database. Enter the password and save the entered password field… then you can have it like that (It’s not the most secure). You must do this same process on the edit password page.

I’ve researched this option a little more and although it will work, on other hand it will give a compliance hell and possible issues with GDPR, as most of my clients are UK based.
@JareRamirez is right, it’s basically illegal

Thank you both for looking into it! I’ll use both of your advices when developing this feature.

[JareRamirez]

Whenever you need extra hints, do not hesitate to DM!

Kind Regards
Jare Ramirez