read only access to datasources

I’d like to offer a couple of elaborations on Carl’s answer.

While he’s indeed right that there is no such feature as “read-only access” for the Admin, I’d not quite say “Your choices there are either no access or full access”. There is the multi-user security feature for the Admin (not on by default) where one can create new username/password combinations for the Admin, and you can limit what parts of the Admin each user can see. (But again, that wouldn’t work if you mean Lincoln you want them to be able to “see but not touch” the datasources.)

You can find more about the Multiuser feature (the User Manager page of the CF Admin) in the Admin docs: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf364104-7ff4.html#WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7fc6, and far more detail in an article I did in the Adobe Dev Center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/admin_multiusers.html

As for providing a way to show the users datasource and task info, you could instead, as Carl also points out in his second sentence, use the Admin API in CF (a set of CFCs you can call from CFML code that you create) to provide an interface for your users to see such thing. You can find more on the Admin API in the Admin manual, specifically this section: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf364104-7fcf.html#WS22A46B0F-C945-444a-8775-BF305446EF86

One last thing: as far as listing scheduled tasks, CF10 has added that as a feature of the CFSCHEDULE tag, with a new Action=”list”.

Hope that helps.

/charlie