What are the different ways of making an AGOL feature layer read-only?

[Bud]

What are the different ways of making an AGOL feature layer read-only?

1. Make a view
2. Make a collection
3. Anything else?

AGOL skill level: novice.

[RyanUthoff]

It depends on your definition of read-only, but you could also just disable all editing on your feature layer without creating a view. I think creating a read-only view is the better option, but technically, you can just disable editing on the feature layer and that would make it read-only.

[RussellBrennan · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bud, 

The easiest way to do it is to disable all editing on your layer. Be aware that if you are the owner of the layer  (or admin) you will always be able to edit. The view approach is helpful if you want to share an editable copy of the data with some folks and a read only version of the data with others or wanted to otherwise limit visibility of the original data in some way. If you just want a read only copy the best/easiest is simply to disable all editing. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/manage-data/manage-editing-hfl.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_C30D73392D9...