https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/ability-to-use-saved-sde-user-version-connections/idi-p/921629 <P>Currently in ArcMap, if there are layers from a connection with a saved password/version such as guest/welcome/default for read-only featureclasses and layers from a connection without a saved password/version for editable featureclasses... the read-only permissions override the blank connection.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>In my example we have read-only basemap layers in an edit map with guest/welcome/default version saved in the map.&nbsp; When our water utility editors open the map they are to be prompted for their login/password/version for the editable layers.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>When one of the layers with guest/welcome/default is at the top of the table of contents the connection information propagates to all of the layers in the map.&nbsp; So our editors don't get prompted for their login information and can't edit.&nbsp; Our workaround has been to make sure that no layer with saved login information is above editable layers in the table of contents...but I would like this to be a non-issue in ArcGIS 10.&nbsp; This was not an issue in previous ArcGIS versions.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>TAG: Geodatabase</P> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:24:32 GMT ElisaCoyle 2022-08-24T17:24:32Z https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/ability-to-use-saved-sde-user-version-connections/idi-p/921629 <P>Currently in ArcMap, if there are layers from a connection with a saved password/version such as guest/welcome/default for read-only featureclasses and layers from a connection without a saved password/version for editable featureclasses... the read-only permissions override the blank connection.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>In my example we have read-only basemap layers in an edit map with guest/welcome/default version saved in the map.&nbsp; When our water utility editors open the map they are to be prompted for their login/password/version for the editable layers.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>When one of the layers with guest/welcome/default is at the top of the table of contents the connection information propagates to all of the layers in the map.&nbsp; So our editors don't get prompted for their login information and can't edit.&nbsp; Our workaround has been to make sure that no layer with saved login information is above editable layers in the table of contents...but I would like this to be a non-issue in ArcGIS 10.&nbsp; This was not an issue in previous ArcGIS versions.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>TAG: Geodatabase</P> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:24:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/ability-to-use-saved-sde-user-version-connections/idi-p/921629 ElisaCoyle 2022-08-24T17:24:32Z https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/ability-to-use-saved-sde-user-version-connections/idc-p/1603001#M2507 <P>ArcGIS Desktop is no longer under active development. If similar functionality is required for ArcGIS Pro, please submit a new idea.</P> Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:43:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/ability-to-use-saved-sde-user-version-connections/idc-p/1603001#M2507 ShannonShields 2025-04-04T21:43:13Z