Can I restrict ArcMap editing by other staff members?

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02-27-2015 10:18 AM
deleted-user-eecV1RPyUfl1
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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!

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JakeSkinner
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Hi Dan,

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.

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JakeSkinner
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Hi Dan,

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.

deleted-user-eecV1RPyUfl1
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Thank you very much for the quick response Jake!  We are using primarily File GDBs, so that's how we'll handle it for now.  Thanks again.  -Dan

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