From 59b72087f29d432f8ee92dc8fb8d5edae67889c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charlie <69320440+hal9000PR@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 11:49:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] VV fix (#18511)

---
 code/datums/datumvars.dm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/datums/datumvars.dm b/code/datums/datumvars.dm
index a0837547afb..a7000f0c760 100644
--- a/code/datums/datumvars.dm
+++ b/code/datums/datumvars.dm
@@ -524,8 +524,8 @@
 
 /client/proc/view_var_Topic(href, href_list, hsrc)
 	//This should all be moved over to datum/admins/Topic() or something ~Carn
-	if(!check_rights(R_ADMIN|R_MOD))
-		return
+	if(!check_rights(R_ADMIN|R_MOD, FALSE) && !((href_list["datumrefresh"] || href_list["Vars"] || href_list["VarsList"]) && check_rights(R_VIEWRUNTIMES, FALSE)))
+		return // clients with R_VIEWRUNTIMES can still refresh the window/view references/view lists. they cannot edit anything else however.
 
 	if(view_var_Topic_list(href, href_list, hsrc))  // done because you can't use UIDs with lists and I don't want to snowflake into the below check to supress warnings
 		return