We need to keep the sims private so the development teams could put stuff together before we open the sims to the public. So the obvious thing to do is to limit access to the sim just to a group where all the developers are. Which of course is fine.
Now problem is if you need to let other people have access to sim to see the build in progress. If you put them into the same developer group they can accidently delete stuff. Which is no fun for no one.
Working with Estate Tools, Groups and Land is not so easy! But there is some logic to how it works...We did not see any Lindo documents on this, maybe they are somewhere?? So after applying some heuristics we figure out a good enough solution to this:
* Using Estate Tools make a Visitor Group and give it access to the entire Estate. Note that if a sim is not open to the public that this does not automatically let anyone into a specific sim or parcel--you need to also open access at that level.
* Then invite guests to this Visitor Group and of course they need to accept.
* Then go to the sim/parcel you want to allow access and enter specific avatar names there. Note you can remove them from sim access without their getting any advice from system.
* For the developers, easiest to include them in the Visitor Group also and then make yet another group for them for Dev. Then go to the About Land tools and give that Dev Group access. Developers can now deed stuff to group without risk of Visitors knocking it all over, taking it away, wearing on their heads etc.
I supppose you could also use day passes for limited one-time access. But generally seems about same number of steps and most people are not using day passes so something to explain to them. In method above, you also get benefit of builing a Group of visitors that you can send note to once the sim is open.
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