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Couldn't decide if this should be in CiviMember, Contribute or Mail, so I settled for none of the above ..

I'm trying to figure out how to facilitate membership renewals when a member does not have a CMS user account. Is this possible? I see that I can pass a CID GET param to a contribute membership page, which populates the contact info (a security risk, by the way?), but this creates a new membership. Thus new nag emails to members who've lapsed with a smart group will still go to these members.

Am I missing something?

Hi Peter, thanks for the reply. How are you adding checksums? How are you creating the emails? With the automated reminder script? Do these create links that can be used to renew a specific membership?

Also, for the "security risk", try this link:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&action=preview&id=2&cid=31

Note that it's pre-filled with contact ID 31's information.

I think this approach would only work for the civimail blast.

From memory - create the Contribution Page, use the Profile ID to create a URL such as  .../civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=XX&{contact.checksum}

Note you have to turn of 'track click throughs' for this to work.

The profile needs to be set in to the Contribution Page which you create to handle your Join/Rejoin. And sorry I gave you the wrong example of the URL which would obviously need to be going to the Contribution page.

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&action=preview&id=2&cid=31

Note that it's pre-filled with contact ID 31's information.

This is now filed and fixed here: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3848

this will be part of 2.1.2

lobo

We have been using this successfully to send out emails asking for donations - so I know it works with Contribution Pages. But as I can't be sure whether you have made the tweaks we had to do to the system (referred to in other posts that you would find via a search for checksum) I will bow out and see if I can get chris to comment.

Attached is the patch which enables checksum based logins to Contribute forms. Because the contribute form uses a different meaning for "id", you need to specify the contact id in this session as "cid". This means that when using {contact.checksum} in a URL, you need to prepend it with a "c" ...

http://demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1&c{contact.checksum}
I hate keeping a patchset too, which is why we twisted Lobo's arm into letting us have an include path override in CiviCRM 2.1 - this works just like the template overrides; to alter a single file in 2.1 to your liking, you can create a directory structure which mirrors the original CiviCRM structure, and place there ONLY the files you wish to alter.

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,3695.0.html details a method for applying this hack to 2.0

PS. I wish the forum would allow ".patch" as an attachment  *sniff*

PPS. Oh look, you'd already linked to the same hack ... cool