HowTo ReadOnlyDigger

If you would like to give your users access to the data, but do not want them to change the data, or if you would like to protect yourself from changing data (for example in your production database) you can start DataDigger in read-only mode.

You can do that by changing your startup link. Instead of starting datadigger.p you should run datareader.p. This program will disable all actions that could possibly create, modify or delete data or definitions. When you start in read-only mode, you will see a warning:

In the menu, the options for Procedure Editor, Data Dictionary and Data Administration functions in the menu are blocked:

Access to functions that change, modify or delete data is blocked:

Although it looks like you are able to edit the record, this is not the case. This is done because the edit window is an informative source for the user. In read-only mode, you cannot save the changes you make: