Can you still print Rank and Merit Badge pocket certificates from SB+?

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Is there a way to use Scoutbook+ to fill out the pocket certificates for merit badges and rank advancement or did that go away with the migration? I’m not sure if I’m looking in the wrong place, if it doesn’t exist, or if I don’t have access.

Thanks!

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@ChristyDryden

Merit Badge pocket certificates can be printed from a purchase order, the same as legacy Scoutbook. Purchase orders are under To Purchase of the Advancements tab of the roster page.

Scouts BSA Rank pocket certificates have never been printable via Scoutbook.

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Really? Why the heck did they have 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of them at our council store? This is the first time that we’ve had so many crossovers that printing them made any kind of sense so I never would have noticed either way but I assumed the existence of the sheets meant that there was a way to print on them.

For the MBs - does that only appear when you have merit badges on the PO? I was looking there, but just happen to only have a zillion ranks and no MBs this time.

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@ChristyDryden

Yes, you need Merit Badges on the PO in order for the pocket certificates to appear.

The printable sheets have been available long before Scoutbook came along. Supply Group does not discuss their products with Scouting America IT. Often Scouting America IT finds out there was a change to the sheets because a member reports the change via the forums.

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Thanks. Is this something Troop Track or Troopmaster was set up do? Just trying to understand the logic of those sheets existing in the first place!
I can understand why they don’t do this for the other ranks since we don’t normally have 8 or more earning them at the same time, but having that many crossovers all complete Scout together seems like a pretty common thing to happen.

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It wouldn’t have been for 3rd party products. Likely it was for people who made up their own templates to use. Just type in the info in some layout software. When I have done that I do a lot of trial and error. I print it on thin paper and hold it up to the light with the real form behind it. I guess one could just fill them in by hand somewhat easier as a sheet or **gasp** use a typewriter.

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I had somehow forgotten that typewriters ever existed!

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@ChristyDryden - none of us would really know why the sheet stock was created. It really is the same as Avery making sheet labels and cards or Brady making sheet labels. That was a supply group thing and none of us work for them.