Answers.Body: <p>If you use Advanced Search, you're searching for contacts, not memberships — and you can't use a memberships profile to update contacts.</p>
  <p>But if you use Memberships - Find Membership to search for memberships, you should be able to select your memberships profile to update them.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: You can also use Adv Search but in top left corner set it to 'Show Memberships'
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Body: <p>I have read how to do a batch update of multiple membership records. This involves having already created a profile. I have tried creating a membership profile but when i try to do the update multiple records after my advanced search it says i need a profile. My profile record must be wrong.</p>
  <p>Can anyone point me to a idiots guide to creating profiles that will show me how to create for a batch update.</p>
  <p>thanks
  Dave</p>
  
Tags: <civimember><profile><batches><multiple-records>
Title: Creating a profile for updating multiple membership records
ThreadText: # Creating a profile for updating multiple membership records
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-12-17)
  
  I have read how to do a batch update of multiple membership records. This involves having already created a profile. I have tried creating a membership profile but when i try to do the update multiple records after my advanced search it says i need a profile. My profile record must be wrong.
  
  Can anyone point me to a idiots guide to creating profiles that will show me how to create for a batch update.
  
  thanks
  Dave
  
  **Tags:** civimember, profile, batches, multiple-records
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-12-17. Score: 1
  
  If you use Advanced Search, you're searching for contacts, not memberships — and you can't use a memberships profile to update contacts.
  
  But if you use Memberships - Find Membership to search for memberships, you should be able to select your memberships profile to update them.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: You can also use Adv Search but in top left corner set it to 'Show Memberships'  
  
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