I have one Scout that has rank and one merit badge that will not move to awarded what do I have to do to force the awarded star to show (internet advancement)
Awarded is a Scoutbook term and has not been implemented in Internet Advancement yet
@DonovanMcNeil - Why not? I have the same problem. Some Ranks, Awards and Merit Badges show Awarded and others show Approved. So âAwardedâ is already there - âimplementedâ as you say. What gives? I need to mark some of those things Awarded. How do I do that? Thanks, Tony
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Internet Advancement and Scoutbook share the same database. When the Scoutbook database was populated from ScoutNET there were rules used to set the awarded flag (I believe it was anything earned more than 6 months before the import).
Since legacy Internet Advancement did not have a concept of Awarded, Internet Advancement 2.0 did not get the ability to set the awarded flag.
If you want to mark awards that you have presented to the Scouts as awarded, you need to log in to Scoutbook, go to My Dashboard â Reports â Needs Awarding select your unit then click Select All or select the awards that have been given to the Scouts. After the awards are selected, scroll to the bottom and click Mark as Awarded.
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The fix is going to scoutbooks fixing it then it shows correct in advancements. Unfortunately sometimes tech support gets so caught up on one term they can not help. True Story play around till you can help yourself figure it out.
I opened Reports, then Needs Awarding. Nothing shows up; not even a unit to choose. I tried IE, Chrome and FireFox. Here is an attempt to post screenshots for you to see what I see:
Your screenshot is from the new Internet Advancement (scoutbook.scouting.org). To get to what @edavignon is talking about, you have to log in to the Scoutbook web interface (scoutbook.com).
Our Troop does not use Scoutbook and is not moving over to Scoutbook, so how do we get it to show that ranks and merit badges have been awarded. I also have one scout showing as life but has earned and been awarded the rank of Eagle. How do I fix this?
Thank you
Hi, @BarbaraLaird-Pierson, IA2 does not have a mechanism to mark things as Awarded.
At least in Scoutbook, the Eagle rank approval comes from council, rather than from the units. I assume that, since IA2 uses the same back-end database, the approval mechanism is the same.
The Eagle advancement was complete for one Scout when it transferred to this system but the other scout who earned Eagle at about the same time did not. We do not use scout book so even though rank and merit badges have been awarded in this internet advancement it will never show as awarded?
That is my understanding, at least for the time being. There have been other requests to add âAwardedâ as a settable-status in IA2, but it is at best in the backlog. If you want to change the status on something that doesnât appear to have been awarded, I understand from responses in other threads that someone with the appropriate permissions can log into scoutbook.com, navigate to the appropriate scout (or the Needs Awarding report) and mark it as awarded. Marking (or not marking) something as Awarded does not impact its status in the database regarding credit.
Regarding the Eagle advancement not showing as Leader Approved for one of the scouts, how long ago are we talking about? It took over a month after their respective Boards of Review for the Eagle Scout rank to appear as BSA Administrator Leader Approved for two of our latest Eagles. For some of those who earned the rank earlier, the BSA Administrator approval didnât appear for over 4 months. Iâm not sure what the lag was, since they had received their congratulatory letters and authorization to purchase their Eagle badges/swag long before that âapprovalâ appeared in Scoutbook.
I would reach out to my council advancement committee (or the councilâs Eagle Specialist/Coordinator, if you have one) to see what status they see for that scoutâs rank. If itâs showing up correctly in their system but is not showing as awarded, I would probably ask them to look into why it might be getting delayed.
If they see something different than you do, send an email to scoutbook.support@scouting.org with all the details. Then post the post number back here. Itâll be in the subject of the a reply email and begins with SSD.
I have a volunteer asking me how to mark advancements awarded in IA 2.0. Have they given IA an awarded feature since this topic was last visited? This is a help topic I found on the help site. There are no instructions on how it is done though:
Awarded or Approved Options in Internet Advancement (IA)
The statuses that are used throughout various parts of Scoutbook and Internet Advancement are listed below.
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Started â means in progress
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Completed â means the youth has completed the item but it needs approval from their unit leader. In Internet Advancement (IA) this status is generally called âPendingâ because IA is for unit leaders and their action is required for all completed items. Can be entered with either Scoutbook.com or in the Scouting Mobile App
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Approved â The unit leader has verified (i.e., âsigned offâ) that the youth has completed all requirements. (As far as BSA is concerned this youth has earned this advancement.)
4. Awarded (optional) â Some units like to have a way to keep track of which advancements have been approved but not yet presented to the youth. This is where the âAwardedâ status comes in. A unit leader can choose to mark all advancements which have been presented to their youth as âAwardedâ.
Updated on October 17, 2019
IA2 does not really have AWARDED yet - but it is coming in time
Our unit uses IA 2.0 (no plans to use Scoutbook). Any achievements listed as Approved but not Awarded shows up on every single scoutshop report and I have to manually remove them every single time. How do I change the status of long-ago awarded achievements to âawardedâ so that they stop showing up on the scoutshop report?
Thank you!
Jeff, Thatâs the screen when you enter a brand new achievement. How to change an existing (like from 2019) from âapprovedâ to âawardedâ so that it stops showing up on the scoutshop report?
Susan,
Have you closed the Purchase Order after processing the awards?
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I have the same question. I leave as âapprovedâ until after the CoH. How do I moved to âawardedâ?
Was this ever answered? I have the same question. After a COH I want to mark everything as awarded.
