What is the scope of Mod-Rights?

Not exactly a scripting question, I know, and for that I am sorry, but I thought you guys would probably be better placed to answer this than the general forum.

The owner of a rental sim grants me mod rights (I am the Estate Manager). A tenant complains that her door is not working properly. I open the door in edit mode, and it says I can modify this object, and indeed I can move it, resize it, etc. However, in the Contents of the door there is an instruction notecard that I need to read, but when I try to open it it tells me that I do not have permission to view it. Surely, mod-rights gives me that permission, or does it?

TIA

The note card ( and any item in the door's inventory ) has it own set of permissions and they don't have to be the same as those for 'the Door'

Granting modify rights to someone on your friends list also doesn't grant them permission to view/modify the CONTENTS of your objects (even when those items in the contents are full-perm), which is a little odd. Similar applies to objects set/deeded to a group in which your roles give you the right to edit group objects. If the permissions for the current owner allow it, you MIGHT be able to take a copy into your own inventory, modify it, then replace it back into the object however.

BTW, being an estate manager has NOTHING to do with being able to modify another resident or group's objects, though membership in a group to which the object is deeded/set/shared might. Being an estate manager does give you the ability to return/delete objects anywhere in the sim though.

I only put in the info about me being the Estate Manager to set the scene on why I need mod-rights in a rental sim.

You are right, the permission system is odd, very odd in my opinion. In another example, I need to change details in a config notecard in a rental box (owned by the estate owner). Despite mod rights, I canot open that notecard, let alone edit it. However, I CAN delete it, (where does it go to?) modify a config notecard in my inventory, and drag it to the rental box Contents, and that works fine. I CANNOT then open it again (who does that notecard belong to??)! LOL, Odd? Damn weird.

Dragging the notecard into the other resident's object transfers ownership to that other resident, so the notecard would then belong to the estate owner in your example. The system isn't likely to remember it was you who inserted the notecard, so at that point it becomes the same as if the owner had added the notecard--you can transfer another copy to yourself if the permissions allow, but can't view/modify it in place (I say "likely" because in SOME cases it does seem to remember the person who inserted the item; I believe this is only when the object is deeded to group).

What's really screwy about this is that it doesn't seem to be 100% consistent, or maybe it is now but wasn't a year ago. **shrug**

I had been able to actually access a script and successfully compile it that was set to full-perm on a full perm mod-righted object. This was a while ago but I think this goes for any object contents as long as it is set to full-permissions.