CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

if a contact has an expired membership and renews, the existing record is updated so there is just one record per contact for a given organization; all contribution records are linked to the one membership record.

However, if I merge two contacts who are the same, with one having an expired membership and the other a current membership this creates 2 memberships records, rather than modifying the primary one. 

(this also means that they will incorrectly be included any group to identify expired memberships, with out excluding current members).

best,
Merlise

Will try, but probably not right away - I'm in  the middle of teaching for the semester (my real job :-) but also have to set up a conference  (will be trying the COD module in Drupal  and may go back to the ubercart civicrm integration code.)

We figured out the sql code to merge the records like this  earlier, so should be able to identify where in the civi code to add the fixes.

cheers,
m