One of my clients does a ton of householding because, for reasons unrelated to
membership, they needed to put only one person in each name record. So I ended up
reworking the membership fields to allow "joint memberships", meaning that any
non-primary member's membership status
will draw from that of the primary record. It was a bit tricky to set up and took
awhile, but it works fine. Let me know off list if you want more details.
HTH,
Matt
At 11:55 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>This line is different from the first line sent to the developers list.
>
>We have a number of members that are householded because they play
>significant roles that are independent so sometime we want to mail one or
>the other without the partner's name appearing on the correspondence. In V1
>there is a maintenance problem because you have to remember to change both
>of the records if they move. This is easily handled in V2. However there is
>other information that it is harder to fix up to be right by just doing it
>to both records. One of them is listed as primary and things like dues
>payments go to that one. We have family membership rates. But entering the
>dues payment into the primary does not change things like the expire date or
>member status on the secondary. These are only changed by adding a dues
>payment for the secondary. Currently we tend to do a $0 dues payment but
>this is not without problems as that is also what we use for complimentary
>memberships and they need to be distinguished for some purposes.
>
>What solutions have others used for similar problems?
>
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