Can I restrict ArcMap editing by other staff members?

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We have several staff members who want to build their own projects using ArcMap, but we don't want to provide them edit capabilities.  Can this be simply done with read-only file restrictions etc., or is there a best practice method for doing this?  Thank you!

JakeSkinner

Hi Dan,

If the data is a shapefile or a File Geodatabase Feature Class, yes you can simply apply read-only access to the directory and the user will not be able to edit the data.