We have several staff members who want to build their own projects using ArcMap, but we don't want to provide them edit capabilities. Can this be simply done with read-only file restrictions etc., or is there a best practice method for doing this? Thank you!
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.
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.
