The edit multiple setting is awesome, powerful, and very dangerous. We want to enable this for our users, but we can't bring ourselves to do it. It is just too easy, even for seasoned veterans, to overwrite a lot of data.
It would be nice if we could allow edit multiple on a layer but restrict which fields are allowed to be edited. In the field maps form authoring a check box just below the existing Allow Editing checkbox seems to be an appropriate location. This would allow us to provide some level of edit multiple on the fields that often share common data, but restrict edit multiple on fields where that is not appropriate.
I know there is an enhancement request that would utilize the form during edit multiple. I'm hoping something like this wouldn't need to piggy back of that enhancement but could optionally be implemented ahead of it.
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