Preview Communication Site with respective user permission

Question

Hi everyone,

I am currently building a Sharepoint Communication Site on the Modern Version (Sharepoint Online). I would like to know how I can preview the site in different roles, that is as a Member or as a Visitor, to find out how they will experience the site. I can of course invite colleagues and view it through their accounts, but I don't find that a very ergonomic solution.
I would also like to know if it is possible to customise the respective views of the different roles, so that e.g. a Visitor won't see who edited a document last and when it was changed last and all those details that are of no interest to Visitors.

Many thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for posting in Q&A forum.

For the first question:
Currently, “Preview” feature based on respective user permission is not available in SharePoint Online.
The only way you can see the site in different roles is to log in as a use in the respective user permission. I suggest you create a test user account in this tenant to see the outcome.

For the second question:
You can adjust what user can see in a list view (see a reference here: SharePoint list views - different permissions for different views), but hiding a column or list properties from certain user roles is not achievable for the time being.

I suggest you share these ideas and suggestions via SharePoint UserVoice so that Microsoft Team can look into it. We appreciate any suggestion to improve SharePoint products.

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