Non-editable layers showing up on Editor Dialog!

Question

I am running into an issue where non-editable layers are appearing on the editor dialog widget.  The layers are hosted in Portal, are created from a read-only datastore PostGres database, and 'Enable Editing' is unchecked in the layer configuration.  I have also tried to specifically set the layer as not editable in the layerinfos configuration in the editor widget.  I can use the create tools to create a new polygon for this layer but, as expected, it fails when I try to create a new feature.

Is this a bug?

MichaelSnook · Answer

I have the standard 'Data Editor' role in this case that has no administrative privileges set at all.

IngridHogle · Answer

I just resolved a similar issue with the help of Esri Support. In case it's helpful I am copying their summary of my case and how we resolved it, below. Good luck!

To recap our conversation, you were experiencing an issue where a layer's settings were set to disable editing, however members in your organization were still able to edit them. When viewing the layer in Map Viewer, they were seeing the message "Editing is disabled but you have privileges to edit this layer".

You confirmed that your organization has custom roles. We found that the "Update" privilege under Administrative Privileges -> Content was turned on. This privilege allows users to "update and categorize content owned by all organization members, and edit data in all hosted feature layers and hosted feature layer views, even when editing is not enabled on those layers" (Portal for ArcGIS - Administrative privileges)

We turned off that privilege in the custom role, and the users were no longer able to edit other feature layers when editing was disabled. Note that this "Update" privilege is different than the "Edit" privilege found under General Privileges -> Features.