<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688623">QGIS is a viewer - It accesses data in files, databases & via web services.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688622"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688557">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.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688813"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688870">Like with word processing - share a read only file & the software is only a viewer, share a read/write file - user can do more... <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688642"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688691">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...<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688556"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688519" class="qtdSeparateBR">Brent Wood<br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688723" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688722" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688721" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688720" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688725" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688724" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tyler Veinot <tylerkveinot@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 1, 2016 4:20 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688743" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1989734716"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688744" dir="ltr">Hi again;<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688750">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?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688749"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466801558951_688746">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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Tyler</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>List info: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>