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Tim0705:
I have looked online and in all the books but I cannot find any step by step guidance on how I can create a username and password for each of my 572 members sitting on my CiviCRM Membership List? I would like members to login in (for a members-only area of our website) and be able to amend their details and also renew the membership subscription. I would have thought it would have been simple to do but I cannot work it out and have become stuck. Can you help or advise please. Thanks. Tim.

Donald Lobo:

civicrm does not have this functionality built in. We rely and hope that the CMS has functionality to allow "mass creation" of users. We do know of a few drupal modules for this, but not sure about joomla or wordpress

lobo

FatherShawn:
Tim-

You want to look for a Joomla add-on that allows you to create users by importing a file in CSV format.  Ideally one that will create usernames for you from the fields in the file.  Then export your users from Civi with just First Name, Last Name and email as the export fields.  You can then import them into Joomla using that add-on.

If the Joomla add-on won't create usernames, then import the CSV into Excel and add a formula column to concatenate the name fields into a username column.

Hope this helps!

- Shawn

Tim0705:
I may have missed a point here then. How can members amend their own details (currently stored on the CiviCRM component) and renew their memberships if there is no way of individuals loging into the system. Looking at your own website I read the following paragraph (http://book.civicrm.org/user/membership/what-you-need-to-know [nofollow])

Members area on your website   
CiviMember can be used in conjunction with your CMS to create a members only section of your website.  Both Drupal and Joomla have integration modules that can be used to do this.  A typical workflow would be that a contact creates and account on your site and becomes a member of your organisation using a CiviMember membership sign up page.  They then get access to extra content on your site.  This extra content could be from your CMS or it could come from your CRM, for example a detailed members directory, or a list of private events that are only available to members.

This entire paragraph is what I want to achieve but cannot work out how very well. When this was written what was the integration module that the text was referring to?

As always thank you for your continued help.

Tim.

FatherShawn:
I moved from Joomla to Drupal as my CMS before ACLs were added, but this looks similar to the Drupal integration:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/Joomla+CiviCRM+Membership+Authentication+and+ACL+Plugin

Civi depends on the CMS for authentication and creates a relation between the contact record in Civi and the CMS user account, so your logged in users will have access to maintain their info through profiles that you create in Civi and expose to them:
http://book.civicrm.org/user/the-user-interface/profiles

These profiles can stand alone or be embeded in Contribution Pages. (Which are also used for membership signup as many of our users charge for membership but the contribution block will drop out if it's free): http://book.civicrm.org/user/contributions/setup

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