I am pretty new to using Portal, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I have published our parcel fabric as a referenced feature service. That being said, on occasion, I want to use parcels in other maps without having to worry about the end user being able to edit the data. I would love to be able to create a "View" of the feature service, but that can only be done if it were shared as a copy. So, what is the best workflow here? The only alternative I see is to publish a second copy of the parcel fabric as a copy, but now we have a second version of the layer that does not stay synchronized with the source data, which just adds to the administrative headache on my end. What am I missing here?
https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/create-hosted-views.htm
You can configure editing on the view layer to just not allow.
My problem is that I don't have the ability to create a view layer because the data is published as a referenced feature service.
Hi @MDB_GIS,
You can publish the parcel fabric twice, one as a view-only service, and another as an editable service. You can share the editable service to a Group of those you would like to edit the data via Enterprise. For those that you do not want to edit the parcel data, you can only give them access to the view-only service.