[Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer

[Brent Wood]

QGIS is a viewer - It accesses data in files, databases & via web services.
Those data sources determine whether a user can edit the data or not. Make your file geodatabases read only for the QGIS user & the edit capabilities are disabled. It isn't up to QGIS to set such constraints, but those responsible for managing & sharing the data.
Like with word processing - share a read only file & the software is only a viewer, share a read/write file - user can do more... 

Although I found out the hard way that under MS Windows, setting a file to read only does not prevent a user from deleting it. If only Microsoft developers & designers were as good as their marketers...
Brent Wood

      From: Tyler Veinot <tylerkveinot at gmail.com>
 To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org 
 Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 4:20 AM
 Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer
   
Hi again;Just wondering if there is a QGIS Viewer available, or any suggestions as to what I can use that is open source with some basic spatial search capabilities and can view filegeodatabases?
I have been deploying QGIS to our staff to view our GIS Data and I am starting to get a little nervous where someone could easily do some awesome geoprocessing damage to our data if they got to messing about. So does QGIS have something like Esri's Arc Explorer?
ThanksTyler
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