Answers.Body: <ol>
  <li>Go to <strong>Membership > Find Memberships</strong> and perform a search.</li>
  <li>Select <strong>All XX records</strong>  </li>
  <li>From the action menu select <strong>Export members</strong></li>
  <li>Choose <strong>Select fields for export</strong> and <strong>Continue</strong></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>You can then choose to export the <strong>membership ID</strong>, <strong>membership type</strong>, <strong>membership start date</strong> (all of which are needed to update a membership) and contact ID or Display Name or whatever else you need to match the memberships in the database to your external list of memberships. </p>
  
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Body: <p>Hi I am testing updating memberships via the front-end 'import memberships'tool. 
  The [membership id] is required in order to do this. For the life of me I cannot find a way to get it out of Civi  (cannot go inot the db, need to stick to stick to the frontend interface for users). </p>
  
  <p>It's not on screen, not available as a field on membership reports, not available to set up as a profile view...
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Xt5MU.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Xt5MU.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>We are on 4.6.12
  Any tips appreciated.</p>
  
Tags: <civimember>
Title: Where is the membership id?
ThreadText: # Where is the membership id?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-25)
  
  Hi I am testing updating memberships via the front-end 'import memberships'tool.
  The [membership id] is required in order to do this. For the life of me I cannot find a way to get it out of Civi (cannot go inot the db, need to stick to stick to the frontend interface for users).
  
  It's not on screen, not available as a field on membership reports, not available to set up as a profile view...
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/Xt5MU.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/Xt5MU.jpg)
  
  We are on 4.6.12
  Any tips appreciated.
  
  **Tags:** civimember
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-25. Score: 4
  
  1. Go to **Membership > Find Memberships** and perform a search.
  2. Select **All XX records**
  3. From the action menu select **Export members**
  4. Choose **Select fields for export** and **Continue**
  
  You can then choose to export the **membership ID**, **membership type**, **membership start date** (all of which are needed to update a membership) and contact ID or Display Name or whatever else you need to match the memberships in the database to your external list of memberships.
  
  
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