Groups and permissions for my users? Where?

So this CMS is called Dolphin. Dolphins assemble in groups, called schools. But this package doesn't have groups, or anything like it?!?! What the...

Why not?

If groups do exist that I can place members in and administrate their permissions so I can have private sections of the site, where are they?

In my opinion it's pretty ridiculous that, especially due to the packages name, it doesn't have groups (if it truly doesn't).

The only choices I have are to allow everyone to see everything, or let nobody see anything. There's got to be groups!

I've never seen a CMS, in my 12 to 15 years of working with and developing these systems, that didn't have this feature.

Please direct me to where they are.

Dolphin has Groups - they leave something to be desired, but that is one of the modules.

Thanks. I haven't found anything desirable about this package, yet. Other then maybe, slightly, the way it looks cosmetically to the end-user that doesn't know a thing about creating websites. The more I mess with Dolphin the more I dislike it, the more I wish my client would change his mind and decide on another portal package.

There's a lot of "Ooo! Neat!"s for dummies.

That don't work.

Are the developers ever going to fix it? Doubt it, they're making money and that's all they seem to be concerned with.

If you hate it now, I suggest you dump it now and never look back.  You will almost certainly hate it even more, after you have been trying for years to get it to work properly like many of us.

I wouldn't call my thoughts about it hated. LOL at least...yet. I knew it wasn't as great of a system as my client suggested it is when I got less to a minute into it when it errored and said it needed magic quotes enabled (v6).

It's more like...I keep finding things and going "WTF?!?! Why in the world did they do that?!?"

Unfortunately like some other posts I've read this is not my choice. If it were for my own personal site I would have thrown this in the trash and never looked back after seeing that magic_quotes error and ffmpeg. There is absolutely no reason for them that justifies the risk they subject us to.

This is actually for a client that's a well known entity. Them being a well known personality (tv show) is another reason I wish I could talk them out of their determination to use this system. Dolphin is too shotty to deserve having such a well known site/show/celebrity using it. 'The customer is right'. So I have to do what they ask.

Of course I've made my suggestions. I'm stuck, and will probably end up sicking the ole nuke team on this system to integrate phpbb into it. IF I can get them to look at it for more then a few seconds after they see all the security holes and schitt talk (lies) about hosting companies within it.

Where's the hacker cults? They would have a field day with this system. I'm kind of hoping that happens so the people that aren't aware of Dolphins issues have the wool pulled away from their eyes. If this system does get popular it's going to happen. So it would be wise of the developers to get off their horse and on the ball NOW.

It can be a great system. I would like to see it become what it can be.