Ways to put application in Read Only mode during monthly maintenance

Hello,
We have a situation where during monthly maintenance phase for 2-3 days i need to put the application in Read only mode. We already have dimension level security applied to each user but even to those users who have the write access to some members on the data forms etc, the application should just be read only during that time so that no users can enter any data.
From what I know putting the application in maintenance mode all the users will be locked out which is not what we want. The users should still be able to see the dataforms, reports etc. So, please let me know your ideas on this.
Any ideas are appreciated.
~ Adella

The same question was asked the other day - How can i make a application as read only ?
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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