Adding Tenderfoot (or Second Class or First Class) advancement to meeting causes it to hang

Hi, Mark,

I’m assuming you’re talking about the “planned advancement” settings in the calendar module.

I haven’t encountered this issue, but I understand that the planned advancement feature is currently not updated to reflect the latest requirements, and there is no specific public timeline to do so.

The planned advancement system has never done anything easily visible (e.g. add the list of planned items to a user-visible list anywhere, automatically sync to advancement based on attendance, etc). At one point, it would flag an advancement as being planned, but a scout/parent had to navigate to the rank page where that specific advancement would be displayed to see this. My understanding is that there is a calendar update that’s being planned, but it’s not clear to me what that update will do in terms of the planned advancement.

I would recommend that you put the advancement items you plan to cover in the event description text so that it’s both visible and avoids the hang-up you are experiencing.

ETA: Related discussion ongoing here:
https://discussions.scouting.org/t/auto-syncing-completed-requirements-merit-badges-with-awards-or-other-advancement-requirements/100444

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