Answers.Body: <p>This was too long to be a comment.</p>
  
  <p>Are these people joining up for themselves on your public web pages, or are they being signed up as members by office staff using the "back office" pages? </p>
  
  <p>Also a person has to choose the correct membership type to begin with. If a person is already a member of your default organisation then they will have to join again as a member of a different organisation.  </p>
  
  <p>Have you read the Membership section of our User and Admin guide, in particular the chapters <a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/online-membership-sign-up/" rel="nofollow">online membership and sign up</a>, <a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/manual-entry-of-memberships/" rel="nofollow">manual entry of memberships</a> and <a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/membership-pricesets/" rel="nofollow">membership price sets</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>i have a sporting company which does multiple sport departments each whith its own results  there are all part of the mothercompny called flevostar</p>
  
  <p>so example you have Flevostar Basketball and FlevostarDart
  i created 3 organisations in my contact list  Flevostar/Dart/Basketball</p>
  
  <p>a new member is also created 
  on the add membership page i would like to add a membership linking that new person to for instance Dart. Even though it appears that there is a drop down  i can only select default company  in this case Flevostar and a membership type.</p>
  
  <p>ending up with that i have to absue the membership tpe to distinquish them so had to create MemberTypes  ACTMEM DART and AVTMEM Basketball
  where as i would have liked to have new member x is member of department(organisation)Dart  whith type Member</p>
  
  <p>is this any how to be achieved?</p>
  
  <p>best regards</p>
  
  <p>leon</p>
  
  <p>ok  maybe i am not clear in my problem description. i use the backend for creating initial relation ships between the member and the department.  example: i have John as contact Basketball as organisation and flevostar as default.  now i go to johns personal sumary and click on memberships (initial they ar counted as 0) and i want to ad a membership.  Memberships tupes are  LID basketball  connected to Basketbal organisation and Lid Flevostar connected to flevostar organisation.  so in the memberships sumary i want to add johns membership to the basketball organisation with type Lid basketball.  However i can not select the organisatiobn Basketball in the drop down hence i can not link Lid basketball type to John  i hope this makes sense now</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I don't think it's an abuse, to me that looks like just how it works. For one membership type to have a choice of chapters (or even for it to be able to cover multiple chapters?) this is a feature that would have to be added.
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Comments.Text: Hi Leon, if I understand correctly, when assigning a membership, you want to have a choice of a department that membership is for? As DaveFF mentioned, you will need to set up separate membership type for each department - a membership type can be associated with one organization (or department/chapter) only.
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Comments.Text: ok   i created serveral memberships and departments  i linked the membership types per department  now  still a new member should be able toselect the organization and membership type right?  fact is that the drop down for organisation only displays default organisation. what am i doing wrong?
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Comments.Text: seems there is some confusion here. on the public membership form/page there should not be a drop down for 'organisation' there should simply be the Membership Types assuming you added them via the Member tab of the Contribution page
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Comments.Text: ok  maybe i am not clear in my problem description. i use the backend for creating initial relation ships between the member and the department.
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Title: Add a membership to a person with an other than default company
ThreadText: # Add a membership to a person with an other than default company
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-06-05)
  
  i have a sporting company which does multiple sport departments each whith its own results there are all part of the mothercompny called flevostar
  
  so example you have Flevostar Basketball and FlevostarDart
  i created 3 organisations in my contact list Flevostar/Dart/Basketball
  
  a new member is also created
  on the add membership page i would like to add a membership linking that new person to for instance Dart. Even though it appears that there is a drop down i can only select default company in this case Flevostar and a membership type.
  
  ending up with that i have to absue the membership tpe to distinquish them so had to create MemberTypes ACTMEM DART and AVTMEM Basketball
  where as i would have liked to have new member x is member of department(organisation)Dart whith type Member
  
  is this any how to be achieved?
  
  best regards
  
  username_0
  
  ok maybe i am not clear in my problem description. i use the backend for creating initial relation ships between the member and the department. example: i have John as contact Basketball as organisation and flevostar as default. now i go to johns personal sumary and click on memberships (initial they ar counted as 0) and i want to ad a membership. Memberships tupes are LID basketball connected to Basketbal organisation and Lid Flevostar connected to flevostar organisation. so in the memberships sumary i want to add johns membership to the basketball organisation with type Lid basketball. However i can not select the organisatiobn Basketball in the drop down hence i can not link Lid basketball type to John i hope this makes sense now
  
  **Tags:** civimember
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I don't think it's an abuse, to me that looks like just how it works. For one membership type to have a choice of chapters (or even for it to be able to cover multiple chapters?) this is a feature that would have to be added.  
  > **username_2**: Hi username_0, if I understand correctly, when assigning a membership, you want to have a choice of a department that membership is for? As username_1 mentioned, you will need to set up separate membership type for each department - a membership type can be associated with one organization (or department/chapter) only.  
  > **username_0**: ok   i created serveral memberships and departments  i linked the membership types per department  now  still a new member should be able toselect the organization and membership type right?  fact is that the drop down for organisation only displays default organisation. what am i doing wrong?  
  > **username_3**: seems there is some confusion here. on the public membership form/page there should not be a drop down for 'organisation' there should simply be the Membership Types assuming you added them via the Member tab of the Contribution page  
  > **username_0**: ok  maybe i am not clear in my problem description. i use the backend for creating initial relation ships between the member and the department.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-06-06. Score: 2
  
  This was too long to be a comment.
  
  Are these people joining up for themselves on your public web pages, or are they being signed up as members by office staff using the "back office" pages?
  
  Also a person has to choose the correct membership type to begin with. If a person is already a member of your default organisation then they will have to join again as a member of a different organisation.
  
  Have you read the Membership section of our User and Admin guide, in particular the chapters [online membership and sign up](http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/online-membership-sign-up/), [manual entry of memberships](http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/manual-entry-of-memberships/) and [membership price sets](http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/membership-pricesets/)
  
  
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