Ubercart Expiring Member roles and CiviMember

[jellobrain]

I have a drupal site that uses Ubercart to sell memberships.  The membership roles automatically expire a year after purchase.  I configured uc_civicrm to synch roles and groups between drupal and civicrm.

At this point, when someone purchases a membership, the purchase is logged as an activity in CiviCRM (yay!).

At this point, however,  CiviMember, membership roles, and smart membership groups are not being added or changed.  I am hoping this is a simple step that I missed in configuring somewhere.  Do you have any suggestions?

Any information or direction is appreciated.  I have contacted the #civicrm irc, and also have been looking on the CiviForums and the drupal site, but am still not seeing anything.  Are there other module/s I need to install on the drupal side to enable this?  At this point, I am using ubercart expiring roles module, and uc_civicrm.  I have set the groups and roll synchs for drupal and civicrm roles.  at this point i am not using the organic groups module, and am synching the member 'role' in drupal to the member 'group' in civicrm.

[Dave Greenberg]

If you want to take advantage of CiviCRM's "membership management" features (e.g. CiviMember) - I think you have 2 choices:

1. Use CiviContribute / CiviMember online membership signup and renewal forms INSTEAD of UberCart for "self service" member signup / payment.

(check out the Membership section in "Understanding CiviCRM" - our new online book - for background: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/MembershipPlanning)

2. OR you'll have to implement some PHP code in a separate (custom) module which creates and updates the CiviMember membership records when the UberCart transactions are recorded.

[Matt2000]

So you're using uc_roles module and civicrm_group_roles module ("CiviGroup Roles Sync") and civicrm_member_roles ("CiviMember Roles Sync")?

So the idea is that a user is to be granted a Drupal Role, which then grants a CiviCRM Membership, and a CiviCRM group?

Have you verified that the Drupal role is being granted to the purchaser?

Are you sure you need CiviMember at all? Seems to me uc_roles is providing everything CiviMember would otherwise be used for?

-Matt