topic Re: Can I restrict ArcMap editing by other staff members? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384748#M22079 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you very much for the quick response Jake!&nbsp; We are using primarily File GDBs, so that's how we'll handle it for now.&nbsp; Thanks again.&nbsp; -Dan</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:24:26 GMT deleted-user-eecV1RPyUfl1 2015-02-27T18:24:26Z Can I restrict ArcMap editing by other staff members? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384746#M22077 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have several staff members who want to build their own projects using ArcMap, but we don't want to provide them edit capabilities.&nbsp; Can this be simply done with read-only file restrictions etc., or is there a best practice method for doing this?&nbsp; Thank you!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:18:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384746#M22077 deleted-user-eecV1RPyUfl1 2015-02-27T18:18:07Z Re: Can I restrict ArcMap editing by other staff members? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384747#M22078 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Dan,</P><P></P><P>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.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:20:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384747#M22078 JakeSkinner 2015-02-27T18:20:46Z Re: Can I restrict ArcMap editing by other staff members? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384748#M22079 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you very much for the quick response Jake!&nbsp; We are using primarily File GDBs, so that's how we'll handle it for now.&nbsp; Thanks again.&nbsp; -Dan</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:24:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-i-restrict-arcmap-editing-by-other-staff/m-p/384748#M22079 deleted-user-eecV1RPyUfl1 2015-02-27T18:24:26Z