Hippo rental system w/ group land

Hello everyone,

I have an issue with some new rentals I am setting up. I am using the Hippo rental system, and I also want to use the Hippo locking door scripts. Our land is currently owned by 1 person, but we have a group of four and will split everything accordingly.

Here are my issues...
1. Possibly not an issue, but I notice that anyone can open the door before the unit is rented. As I type this, I am sure this is by design so that anyone can check out the property. Can anyone verify?

2. The door locking system seems to let the new renter open the door, but will not let the other land owners in the group open the door, but of course it will let the land owner open the door.

Our land is currently not under deed ownership, and I am curious as to if I need to do that so that the door scripts see everyone as the owner and not just 1 person. If the actual land owners goes on vacation for a week, the other 3 should still be able to manage the property.

Thanks

Trying asking the manufacturer, instead of under Scripting Tips?

The reason I posted it here is because I did a search and found other Hippo questions in this area. Unfortunately, the creator of the Hippo system is on vacation until April 12th, and I am trying to find a solution now so that I can release these units for rental.

In order to recognize more than one person in your door, you will need an 'access list' or 'group access' option for the door. I am not sure if Hippo offers this option, as I do not use the system.

The previous poster was correct, asking for help regarding a specific product is not an appropriate post for the Scripting Tips forum. The maker of a product is responsible for their own customer support.

I probably came across more harsh than I meant to -- sorry.

Resident Answers might be a good place to post the question though. It's just that this forum is generally about asking advice on how to implement something in LSL.

Nightline -- contact me in-world if you are not familiar with scripting...I can help you in this regard since I had a similar need and wrote my scripts to deal with it. I am going to be in and out...so IM me anyway even if I am offline since I might still be able to reply by email.

Answering some of your scripting-related questions....

If you are familiar with scripting, as someone else pointed out, you'll have to add an access list to the door and make sure that the owners are always in the 'allowed' list. There are freebie door scripts here in the scripting forums that demonstrate the technique (you can probably use large parts of those scripts since your tenants are likely to want to have the ability to add their friends/spouse/etc to the access list).

The owner of the land (person or group) won't make any difference to the door unless you have it use the add something like llSameGroup(llDetectedkey(0)) to the door's open method to determine if the toucher is in the same group as the door. Most rental properties use one group to manage the property so using llSameGroup would allow all members of the group (all of your tenants) to acces all doors.

The quick way would be to have your doors set to a 'land management' group, then use llSameGroup(llDetectedkey(0)) in the door's touch event and exit if it is false (so the door won't respond to someone that is not in the group). You can have your land owned by a group or person - just make sure that your tenants are not in the 'land management' group.

You'll have to modify the door's script a little to bypass the security check when llSameGroup(llDetectedkey(0)) is true to make sure owners can still get in.

If all else fails....get around the door like most others do it is very easy to bypass a door/window/wall/etc.

-2fast

Thanks a bunch for all your replies, greatly appreciated. As for the previous poster, I will give that a try, and will contact you if I run into a glitch.

Nightline..got your IM...I'll try to contact you sometime today (Saturday)..sorry for the delay - just some RL issues at the moment

(Not a scripting tip...sorry - won't post this type of stuff after this)