Sharing Content Without Downloading Layer

AbigailEbelherr

I would like to double check my understanding of something. 

Issue:  I have a layer that I want to share with the public in Survey123.  I do not want anyone to be able to download the layer and use it in any other program.

I created a View Layer from the Feature Layer.  In settings under Export Data, I have "Allow others to export to different formats" unchecked in both the View Layer and Feature Layer.  Is this enough to prevent anyone else from downloading the layer, itself, or does it only prevent them from downloading attribute data?

Thank you.

jcarlson

It makes it harder to download the data, but by itself isn't enough to prevent a download.

When a user interacts with your feature service, the features are literally being downloaded to their browser, albeit in a specific format the browser asks for, and only for the map extent. But any user who is persistent enough would be able to scrape the layer if they wanted to.

Now, is the Survey123 form just for collecting data? If that were the case, you could set access controls on it. Those are the settings like "editors can't see any data, even those they add". That setting would effectively hide all collected data from other users.