Manual upgrade of membership issues

This is something that has been a thread on Expertzzz, and also here: http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/6-1-Is-a-Mess.htm (under a topic that is discussing other issues) but to my knowledge it has not been addressed, and I don't know how to do it.   On the Expertzzz thread, I gathered that this was possible in 6.0 but was somehow left out in 6.1.   When I first posted this Mrpowless said I could only to this by using phpmyadmin - but after repeated posts I couldn't find out where or what to change, and others there seemed to indicate that it was either not possible or very difficult.  On the thread here, Mrpowless reversed himself and seemed to indicate there is a simple way to do this from the admin panel and all I had to do was watch his video and I would learn how.  I went to his site and filled out the request form for this video, but haven't received it yet.

Could someone tell me if he is correct?  Where on the members area of the admin panel can you upgrade a member to a different membership level.  Maybe I'm looking right at it but I don't see it.   On Expertzzz, however, someone said they had written Boonex and they were "aware of this problem" and a fix would be released shortly.

Can anyone tell me the straight story on this?  Is it possible to upgrade a member from the control panel in 6.1 - if so how?  Is it possible to upgrade a member from phpmyadmin? - if so how?  If neither of these are possible, what is the best workaround?  Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated.

Rob

Rob:

I have issues with aspects of this function.  But I can change memberships in the Admin contols.  You have to have the right field in the Admin view of the profile editor.  Mrpowless demos it here:  http://www.darrenpowless.com/vids/admincontrols.htm

I think it's funny in his demo he stops short of the resulting page in the Admin control once you change the member's membership type.  Because that's my issue.  The admin page will not accurately reflect the change you made (at least for me).  It's correct in the db and all's good from a member's usability.  But the table view is NOT ACCURATE.  Boonex, please fix.

LHadmin wrote "You have to have the right field in the Admin view of the profile editor"


LH- thanks for your good communication- I hadn't considered that rather obvious approach.   I went to the profiles field edit for admin, as shown in the video, and found that I don't have a "membership" field- so there is nothing to drag to the active area.  Do you know why this would be?  I have set up three membership levels and they are all "active".  Since the membership field wasn't there, I made one from a NEW_ITEM field - but at first it didn't want to take that name, and surrounded it in a red box - later I got it to take but didn't have any dropdown items- should I make that selection list from my existing membership level names, or is there something else involved?  That "membership" box- which doesn't exist on my system must have some special definitions- does anyone know how I get it back?


Rob

Damn!  With LH's help, I have realized that I have somehow deleted the "membership" field which is supposed to be impossible, as it is a system field.  Does anyone know how to get it back?

Thanks

Rob

Hi, you should be able to pull it up in the 'search strings' section of Languages Settings. According to what you find there, you can create a new button in Admin Menu Builder. Failing that, you should be able to find the corresponding file in your original copy of the Dolphin software that you may have stored on your PC?