Do not automatically update renewal date when admin changes level
We use a separate membership level for board members (the need came up when we wanted to have a section of the web site reserved for board members and couldn't find another way to do it other than limiting a section to a specific membership level).
When a member comes on to the board, her/his membership renewal date changes automatically to a year from the date of the change itself. This is a problem for us as the membership renewal date is independent from the board service date (one should not drive the other).
What I would like is for WA to ask whether the membership renewal date should be advanced or remain as part of the process of assigning a member to a different level.
Thank you.
-Alex
Alex Yaroslavsky
shared this idea
This is not an issue anymore.
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy
commented
I moderated a little bit - found a thread with a similar problem from another forum, moved it into Wishlist and moved your comments to this thread.
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Kim Skimmons
commented
I think I've been bitten by this too, and I agree with you.
- Kim
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Doug Miles
commented
I think I have a slightly different issue. If the admin goes in and changes someone's Membership Level in the Membership tab, maybe to correct an error, or switch to a different category but at the same fee, or in advance of renewals, the system automatically moves the renewal date on by a year. If this is not noticed, they get up to a year's extra term! I think the default should be to leave the renewal date as is, or at least there should be a warning flag that it has changed.
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Fluid Apricot
commented
Member since, renewal date etc are tied to membership level only, so if you use groups http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Member+groups instead (and leave the member in the same level) then these dates will not be affected.
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Pamela Rawson
commented
But, a member who is elected to a Board office should not have their "member since" date change, either.
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Fluid Apricot
commented
Alex,
You can also restrict web pages by member groups http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Member+groups instead of membership levels - renewal dates are not affected in that case. So just create a new "Board group" and then restrict access to this group only.
