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There are three dates for a membership.

Join date
Start date
End date

Let's say the membership expired last week and they are currently in status Grace.  When a member renews their membership, both their Start date and their Join date are reset to today's date and status is set to New.   We like to keep record of the Join date being the date they first became a member, whether it be 1989 or 2004 or whatever.  And we'd like to have renewal status set to Current, not New.

How can we stop Join date from auto-updating?

Thanks.

You mean Membership  Status Rules?  Sure here goes:

New
Start: join date
Start Event Adjustment: null
End: join date
End Event Adjustment: 2 months
Current: Y

Current
Start: start date
Start Event Adjustment: null
End: end date
End Event Adjustment: null
Current: Y
Default: Y

Grace
Start: end date
Start Event Adjustment: 0 month
End: end date
End Event Adjustment: 6 month
Current: Y

Lapsed
Start: end date
Start Event Adjustment: null
End: end date
End Event Adjustment: null
Current: N

Pending
Start: join date
Start Event Adjustment: null
End: join date
End Event Adjustment: null
Current: N

Cancelled
Start: join date
Start Event Adjustment: null
End: join date
End Event Adjustment: null
Current: N

Withdrawn
Start: end date
Start Event Adjustment: null
End: null
End Event Adjustment: null
Current: N
Administrator Only: Y

I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean by this equation.  We don't want the join date to be equal to the start date at all, that is our problem.

Can you please be more clear?

This seems to be fixed. I am not experiencing any problem on 4.0.7 and drupal 7. Join date is not changed and hence the status is set to Current (and not New).