Assigning MEMBER TYPE from admin panel?

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I must be missing something because I certainly thought that this would be a standard feature ... unless I'm just not finding it even though it's really there ... ???

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Here's a screenshot with members from within the admin settings:

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What's confusing me is the inability to find an area where I can decide what type of status a member has? We have this in our video portal and I've seen it in plenty of other programms out there. Even here, you'd think that if there are membership types for admin, moderator, basic member ... that there'd be a checkbox or toggle with which to assign such a status to a member of choice, by the community admin? It seems to me like that function should/has to be there, but I just can't seem to find it. Would really appreciate some help with this.

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Greetings from Germany

If you want to set a moderator under users in your admin select moderators. Then in the input feilds type in or copy and paste one of the requested fields. User name is probably easiest then search. Then when you find the member you want as a moderator you select the check box at the end and approve.

For member levels that under you settings in admin

Make sure you include the "membership" systems field in your admin profile edit, then just click on the number of the member - and the "membership levels" you defind in the control panel should be there.  Is that what you meant?

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Thanks to both of you.

I'm not sure what you mean by "in your admin profile" because the only "profile" that the admin has, to my knowledge anyway, is the admin himself which, at least in my case, only has access to the community via the admin login panel ... but not as a bonafide profile holder (hope I didn't make things more confusing).

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As far as Mr. Powless goes, there's something that some or most of the techies really need to keep in mind, and that's that A. a reference to Mr. Powess will only be truly helpful if there's something there that you know for a fact addresses the specific issue that's been posted about (not kind of or perhaps, but specifically), and B. that there are many items which are no good at all if you're not already a techie or very familiar with dolphin. Here's an example of what I mean: (I know that it's off-topic, sorry)

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open templates/base/bxbaseindex.php<br />line 961 make look like this<p> $ret .= '<span style="font-size:' . $iTagSize . 'px;" mce_style="font-size:' . $iTagSize . 'px;">

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Now, pardon if I say so, but that would be a foreign language to a non-techie.

I would never edit a file of mine if I didn't know exactly why or how and if I didn't have some kind of explantion as to why I should be doing that. When I looked at Mr. Powless site, there's a true treasure of information ... but sadly I'm certain that most non-techies or people who are unfamiliar/totally new to dolphin, wouldn't begin to understand why some of those things ought to be adjusted ... since nothing includes even a small explanation. Just a header, if you're lucky a brief sentence, and then, boom, the code.

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That's like asking for help on changing your car's air filter .... and someone come back with the answer: "Hey, it's that thing inside of the big metal or plastic container that's located under your hood!"

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Yeah, someone who knows a little something might be able to work with that, but not anyone who's never purchased nor looked at any automotive air filter before. It's a shame, instead of taking the time to write detailed, meaningful responses ... more and more people just say go to this site look at that link ... without thinking about the fact that that may actually not be helpful at all to someone who knows little to nothing or to a newbie. No hard feelings, and I'm not trying to get on your case, but when someone looks for help on a forum, I try to actually do just that ... help that person if I can. Anyway, thanks again and have a great day!

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Greetings from Germany

Here is the specific link to mrpowless blog that I thought addressed your issue: http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/How_to_put_login_where_Join_Now_and_Member_Login_is I took the time to look it up for you since you wouldn't do so.    The admin can edit any profile - please read the documentation to learn how to do this.  I have heard you complain several times now when people try to help you.  I am sorry my attempts have not been up to your expectations - hopefully others here will be able to help you in the future.