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Hi thanks for reading.  I would like to add the CiviMember "Membership Type" to a profile.  For instance, in a public display of a list of contacts, I would like to put their membership type next to their name like "Gold Member, Silver Member, Platinum Member" etc....   

However, when I go to add fields to a profile the only one available is "Source" (see attached image).

How to I access more CiviMember fields for Profiles?

 

Looks like I'm going to have to go the Views route.  When I'm done I'll post a follow up on how it did it.  Thanks.

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I successfully used Views2 module in Drupal to gather the CiviMember "Membership Type" data and display it alongside the contact name, website and other relevant data.  You can expose a filter in Views (click the rather non-obvious EXPOSE button when creating a filter) and your users can sort your members by membership type, state or whatever you want.

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Views2 doesn't handle Contacts with more than one address or more than one phone number.  Such as "work phone" "home mobile" work fax" etc.  This is because the "handler" that is used is a default Views handler and asking CiviCRM for "phone number" actually returns some sort of array, not a single field.  This chokes Views2 and creates duplicate rows and displays, Views and CiviCRM aren't talking like they should be.  To get Views2 to work how I want, it would require a custom handler.  I don't have the time for creating custom handlers, so it's back to the Profiles route.

Roger - regarding "hack" - I'm imagining a solution using the postHook to populate a set of custom (read-only) contact fields with the membership data you need (whenever a membership record is inserted or updated). However I'm not sure how much effort this would be - nor whether it's the best approach. Might want to explore this on IRC w/ other developers.

I ran into the problem of duplicate rows in setting up a member based directory.  Any additional information on this?

I originally posted the info below here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,9868.0.html
I am using views to create a member directory from CiviCRM data (It integrates better than the profile option, I think).  Currently, I have filters set to "is primary" for phone, address and email field.  I did this because without it, views was listing all address/phone options as multiple rows in a table.  I only want the primary available for viewing.

The problem is, if a record is missing a primary phone number, that record does not appear in the view.  In other words, the filter is not only filtering down to primary data, it is filtering OUT if any single piece of primary data is missing.