Mail through Admin

Hi all !

Newbie question:

When logged as Admin, can't use the mail, compose box doesn't open :(

Any clue on what I've done wrong, everything works fine for all other categories of member.

Doesn't work either with Admin or Moderator, which has Admin access.

Thanks in advance :)

Gas

Have you set up special membership for admins and mods ?

If so, check the settings etc.

Thanks for your reply Detective,

Yes I did, for the Mods, but can't recall for Admin.

I've checked all settings 3 or 4 times, and can't get it :(

Just a shot in the dark - try turning off all caches in dolphin, then clear the Dolphin cache - and browser cache - a few times. Are you using a custom template? If so, try with the default UNI template and see if problem persists.

Thanks ProfessorSr,

Cleared all caches twice.

Yes I'm using a custom template ( Adele, from Gorpus ).

When I tried with "Uni" template, it says that my membership level doesn't allow me to perform the task (wich is to compose an e-mail)

???

 It sounds to me like you have set permissions to not allow whatever membership type your admin account is to send messages - based on the message you have posted. Try enabling "send messages" for all membership levels (including guests) and see if that works.

Found it !

When I create my "membership levels" I allowed all permissions, to make tests, and everything worked fine, except for the admins.

Knowing that "stabdard" is the default value, I set permissions to "none" for standard.

Getting back to the admin console, in "members", I saw that the admin and moderators have a "standard" status.

I then changed their status to V.I.P., which is the longest membership value, and everything works.

Don't ask me why "admin" and "mods" have a "standard" status, really don't know.

With all tests done, everything looks fine so, I'll keep it that way for now.

Thanks for your help guys  :)

( I already made a reply but looks like I didn't send it, and wanted to thank you so, if you get the thanks twice, don't be surprised  :)   )

See ya next time

Gas

A good way to create new admin users is to use a Mod Called Deano's Tools. I think it's free. Check the market...

Just my thought - and I oculd be totally off base, but it makes sense to me:

When you install Dolphin, there are only 3 membership levels available - Guest, Promotion, and Standard. Out of these 3 membership levels, the Standard is the highest/offers more. And as such, this is really the only membership level Admin can be set at. Once you create new membership levels, you would have to also change the Admin membership level to whichever one you want it on, or change the permissions of the Standard membership level.

Thanks SkyForum but I already installed it.

I used it to create my "mods" users and, as said, even if I create those as "admin", I have a "standard" status.

:)

Gas

Thanks ProfessorSr, you're surely right.

When I looked at the membership, I had to disable "promotion" cause I've read that the promo period was of 7 , or 10 days, only.

What I wanted to do is give a free membership for the first 100 members (wich we have to handle one by one) and then, they'll have to choose between the "member30", 30 days, or VIP, 1 year (365 days). The other membership is "guest", who only has access to the homepage.

The only way I found to "block" members after their trial period, or membership period, was to disable all fonctions in "standard", and let the system bring them back to "standard" when period was over. 

I understand when you say that the "standard" is the highest but the way I did it was, finally, the only way I found to block members when their membership was over.

Feel free to let me know if you have another way of doing it but, after a lot of researchs and mails with some developers, was the only way I could make it work.

Regards,

Gas

We bought the membership vouchers module in the market here. With your example, you could create a voucher that gives a free membership (whatever membership you like). You also have the ability to set the number of usages of that voucher. So, in theory, you could post the voucher number on your homepage and once it has been used 100 times, it can not be used any more.

Found the "membership vouchers" from Anton LV, looks interesting.

Will probably add the module to the site in the coming days.

Thanks for your help :)

"When I looked at the membership, I had to disable "promotion" cause I've read that the promo period was of 7 , or 10 days, only." I forgot to mention - I have my promotion set at 30 days. So not sure what you read that says 7 or 10 days. I would be guessing, but I think the minimum is 7 days for the promotional membership.