The projectdoc Toolbox provides additional visuals for writers. For instance, every transclusion renders a box to make it obvious that information is transcluded from another page. There are also additional buttons for editing and - if you are using fragments caching - reloading caches manually.

If a author wants to have the page rendered as if she was a reader, the pretend-being-a Pretend Being A property in the user space needs to be set to the value reader. Once set, the fragment of a page shown above renders link this:

The box with the extra widgets is no longer visible.

This short tip explains how the PDAC1, the Web API Extension, and the Bookmarklets Extension support users to switch roles quickly using the pretend-being-a user space property.

What would be most productive is an entry to the page menu provided by Confluence. But if not everyone needs switching roles, this menu will soon be cluttered. What would be more convenient is the option for each user to compile her own menu according to her specific needs.

Bookmarklets allow to create menus in the browser. These menus are personalized and may be exported from and imported into different environments. Typically browsers also allow to sync them.

So how will it look like to create a pretender bookmarklet? First of all: it is already provided once you install the Bookmarklets Extension. The bookmarklet is called Pretender.

The Bookmarklet Extension provides a Bookmarklet Editor. This is a simple Confluence page with some macros attached. 

Simply select the bookmarklet you want to install to your browser and then drag and drop it to your browser's menubar.