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I was wondering if there was a way to have multiple active memberships for a single contact using the same organization. I currently have a client who has the senario where you can buy a membership that gives you a "membership" type based on your profession... then we have a membership type that grants you a years worth of access to an online teaching tool via Drupal Roles... Both must be bought separately. The profession based membership has a fixed yearly renewal period, where as the other has a lifetime affect.

Right now it seems the contacts are "Upselling" to the new membership type as explained in the Civi-CRM book.

I'm thinking there is probably a different way to handle this... but I'm just making sure that there is no possible way to have a single contact to have 2 membership types at the same time from the same organization.

Other options I've considered:

• Just adding another organization (seems kludgy but easy)
• Figuring a way to make a contribution page to add a user to a group that syncs to the specific role on Drupal

Thoughts?

You could use the civicrm_entity module (https://drupal.org/sandbox/eileen/1923028) and the Rules module (https://drupal.org/project/rules) to do this:

Figuring a way to make a contribution page to add a user to a group that syncs to the specific role on Drupal

but using an event registration page.

The rule can react to creation of a an participant object, and you can add a drupal role the the user that is synced to the contact. I created the follow rule to export, and I chose the role to add in my system has an id of 6.  You will have to edit the action and choose which role you want to add to the user. 

Rule code to import via the rules admin interface:
{ "rules_add_drupal_user_role_after_user_registers_for_a_civicrm_ev" : {
    "LABEL" : "Add Drupal User Role after User Registers for a Civicrm Event",
    "PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
    "REQUIRES" : [ "rules", "civicrm" ],
    "ON" : [ "civicrm_participant_create" ],
    "DO" : [
      { "user_add_role" : {
          "account" : [ "site:current-user" ],
          "roles" : { "value" : { "6" : "6" } }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
}