Imported material textures

I spoke to soon, in “edit group” I selected a face (odd shapes get highlighted, I guess due to the curve), then applied the cmu texture, but the ‘texture’ option is not visible in the menu when right clicking. The only way I can find that option is if I unhide the geometry and then adjust each segment of the cylinder, but this means repeating this to each of the 120 segments. Hopefully there is an easier way and I am missing something. I did search this topic in the forum before posting this, but can’t seem to find an answer.

edit: I found this thread which was informative, but I still can’t get the texture to work: