CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

1. Is the membership Dashboard ( <site>civicrm/member?reset=1 ) available in any other form other than, well, the dashboard?  We like this dashboard and wish to mail it out to people monthly or weekly kind of like it was a report, just the 'grid' part at the top.

2. I recall that when a membership used to be renewed it would advance both the START DATE and the END DATE in time.  Now in 4.2 appears that:
  a. only end date advances in time if the membership is current or grace
  b. end date AND start date advance in time if the membership is expired
Is this desired behavior?   If so, why the change?  I can adapt I'm just curious.

I can confirm that's not a new change - but also of note, this breaks the membership dashboard, it gives incorrect numbers as a result.  For instance, a renewal on a lapsed membership will show as a "new membership", not a renewal.  That's notable if your folks are relying on it, Stoob.

Thanks guys for the feedback. 

Great idea for a sprint work subject. 

I wrote a simple extension of the membership detail report that adds a column that compares "member since" and "start date", it labels the column with an "x" as a "likely re-instated" meaning it's likely that at some point the person probably lapsed and re-instated their membership.

I stopped when I realized I didn't know how to make a filter for this column, but it would be nice to do so. 

Many organizations use the status of "new" and set it at 1 year (not 90 days), this serves as a differentiation between first time memberships and members that have been more than 1 year since their "member since" and are therefore "renewing".