Question Admin can't edit user profiles

sozzled wrote: ...Alternatively, you could try to figure it out yourself: go to Kunena Forum » User Administration...


Been there, done that, got the t-shirt... young man... but alas to no avail...

Nevermind.

Thanx for the help anyway.

Currently you can not change a users avatar only they can change their own avatar but im pushing for this function to be added to K1.6 when its released.

It was late in my day when I wrote what I did. As it transpires, the administrator cannot change another user's avatar! :blush: There was a defect in an earlier version of Kunena that prevented the admininistrator deleting another user's avatar, but this function works in K 1.5.11.

Whether or not I erred is not really important. I still believe that my original advice is the best advice. The best policy is to teach your users how to use the features on your site instead of doing everything for them. If your users don't know how to select an avatar image, or upload an avatar image, or change from one avatar image to another ... that's their problem and yours (not ours). As long as you know how to do it, that's what is important. What you could do, when you are confronted by the question "how do I change my avatar image" is to teach them how to do it for themselves ... or point them in the right direction (as I thought I did to you, last night) and they'll figure it out.

After spending a lot of time in researching this topic - I want to be extra careful how I advise - there is no means of achieving what has been asked: the admin cannot change another user's avatar image.

However, the administrator can remove another user's avatar (useful, for example, if one of your users chooses an image that disagrees with the code of conduct for your site). I think this minimal functionality is sufficient.

I will have to check whether any of these changes will make it into K 1.6 but I'm doubtful.

Just want to say that I would love to see a feature added that would allow the admin to change a user's avatar. Our forum's users are kind of lazy, and when we had our old phpbb forum, I would create funny avatars for them and change them using my admin access. They loved it, it was a hoot, whole threads were dedicated to discussing the shenanigans, etc.

So yeah, thumbs up if this gets added in the next release. :laugh:

Y'know ... just how difficult is it for a user to upload/change their own avatar image? You can do it, I can do it ... I would even say that Jack Hill the blind miner could do it ...

So, why don't we quit making excuses for our lazy users who demand the full-driveway service? Show them how to do it and the problem goes away, instantly, kazoom, pow, zap, thwack ... Holy Bouncing Avatars, Batman ...

I don't see this as a necessary function (even for the potential "entertainment value") that site administrators should undertake tasks that users can't bother spending 5 minutes to learn how to do for themselves. It's sufficient that site administrators have the means to reject avatar images if they are contrary to the site's terms of usage policy, in my opinion. Kunena provides them with that means.

In 1.6 Beta there is no such option:(