Advancement Requirements in Events

After a den/pack meeting or event (and if memory serves this will benefit troops as well) there’s a fair bit of administrative work to make sure records are updated in scoutbook

What I’d like is the ability to define advancement requirements that are associated with an event, and then through an attendance-taking mechanism, apply completion for those requirements to any scout who attended.

The incremental benefit at a den meeting is minor - you may be doing something that counts for multiple adventures - but at pack meetings where you’ve got scouts of all ages doing similar things, the benefit increases. Even more so at campouts or summer camp where a scout may do 1 or 2 requirements across nearly all of the adventures.

Beyond saving post-event administrative work, being able to associate adventures/requirements with events could be useful for planning, and if those requirements linked out to their adventure pages, could be used in-event for activity reference. Transparency of activity in the events could be used for parents to understand what their scout will be doing, or remind them of pre-work (bring a snack, 6 essentials, etc).

I realize this has been asked for before, and the UI could wind up being messy, but if you made a dedicated section in event creation, and used an interface similar to quick entry where you’d select rank, adventure, version, and requirements, and then display each adventure on a card, you could let it grow and keep it fairly neat.

There was a feature that did some of this in an old version of Scoutbook. It became a maintenance nightmare and did not work properly so it was dropped.

The downside of such a system is that you may have a meeting where Scouts arrive late, leave early or otherwise do not complete the requirements. In these instances you need a way to remove these Scouts from specific requirements which complicates the UI greatly.

Because of the above I do not see Scouting America IT adding such a feature back.

We recommend using Quick Entry to quickly record requirements that are done at meetings.

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@Monte- i will respectfully vote no to the proposal. There is far more effort to maintain that then it’s value and actual use.

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