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.blumentr...@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-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf > Of *Tyler Veinot > *Sent:* 1. juli 2016 06:00 > *To:* Heikki Vesanto <heikki.vesa...@gmail.com>; Eric Goddard < > egoddard1...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org; t...@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.vesa...@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" <pcr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > >> And how do you stop a user from turning them on again? > >> > >> Brent Wood > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Heikki Vesanto <heikki.vesa...@gmail.com> > >> To: t...@wildintellect.com > >> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user@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_...@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 < > tylerkvei...@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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qgis-user mailing list > >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qgis-user mailing list > >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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