[Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Tyler,

Would the QGIS Browser application fit your needs? It is usually included
as part of a QGIS build/package and is part of the QGIS source code tree.

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/features.html#qgis-browser

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> If you start QGIS with the --configpath option, you avoid hacking the
> registry, as all such settings are written into the folder the
> “--configpath” option points to (more precisely, into the QGIS.ini file)
>
> That folder can be in the users Home directory and e.g. copied from a
> network drive...
>
>
>
> See:
>
>
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/96094/how-to-start-qgis-with-configpath-option-on-windows
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
> *From:* Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Tyler Veinot
> *Sent:* 1. juli 2016 06:00
> *To:* Heikki Vesanto <heikki.vesanto at gmail.com>; Eric Goddard <
> egoddard1010 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; tech at wildintellect.com
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer
>
>
>
> Well there seems to be plenty of options; I like the idea of disabling
> some of the interface options. I highly doubt too many of my coworkers know
> how to access the registry and those that do I am not worried about making
> edits.
> Thanks all.
> Cheers
>
> Sent from my Bell Sony device over Canada’s largest network.
>
> ---- Eric Goddard wrote ----
>
> If you're using the OSGeo4W installer, you could uninstall the filegdb
> api so that QGIS has to use the OpenFileGDB driver (which is read
> only) to view file geodatabases. The QGIS stand-alone installer just
> has the OpenFileGDB driver, so nothing extra is required there.
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Heikki Vesanto
> <heikki.vesanto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you remove customise from the menu they will have to edit their
> registry
> > to get it back. So will stop all but the most determined user.
> >
> > On 30 Jun 2016 19:27, "Brent Wood" <pcreso at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> And how do you stop a user from turning them on again?
> >>
> >> Brent Wood
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Heikki Vesanto <heikki.vesanto at gmail.com>
> >> To: tech at wildintellect.com
> >> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 6:18 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer
> >>
> >> You can hide most of the interface using the settings>customise menu, no
> >> plugin required.
> >> On 30 Jun 2016 18:30, "Alex M" <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06/30/2016 09:40 AM, James Keener wrote:
> >> > How are users accessing the data?  If they're connecting to a
> >> > database, can you simply not give them update permission?  If it's
> >> > files, can you can keep read-only master copies on a public
> >> > store/shared drive?
> >> >
> >> > Jim
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Tyler Veinot <
> tylerkveinot at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> 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?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks
> >> >> Tyler
> >> >>
> >>
> >> The other approach I've seen is to use a plugin to disable and hide most
> >> of the interface.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alex
> >>
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