How to open an EA Model read-only?

[pstein]

I want to open an *.ea model file but all the content should be read-only.

How can I achieve this?

Is there a command line flag for this?

Peter

[«Midnight»]

No, not really. In fact this might not work at all if EA wants to write to the model.

There are (at least) three ways you might be able to go about this though. In no particular order:

• If you can live with access controls for everyone, enable EA security (see the documentation for this). Prevent a some users from doing anything. Everyone has at least write access to the file, so you should get the results you need.
• Consider using EA Lite for some users. This provides a read-only view of projects - though these users can participate in a project-level discussion forum just like anyone else. There is no license fee either.
• Create an HTML report for the entire project. Users will be able to browse the report and see pretty much everything, though the view will be 'canned' and does not refresh automatically. This can be an effective method of allowing an audience to 'see' the project without actually opening the file at all.

HTH, David

[Dermot]

Just to follow up on Midnights second point - here is a link to download EA lite:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/bin/EALite.exe

[«Midnight»]

Thanks Dermot,

For some reason I failed to 'reveal' that link, which certainly limited the usefulness of the suggestion. You've completed the loop (once again).

David