# Cannot Run Advancement Report

**URL:** <https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704>\
**Category:** Internet Advancement\
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704 "2020-08-05T04:57:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![DarcyKendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@DarcyKendall](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/DarcyKendall)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/1 "2020-08-05T04:57:43Z")

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I have dutifully recorded 19 merit badges and 2 awards for our troop, and now want to print out the Advancement Report so I can buy the badges. So I click Run Report \> Advancement Report, but I get a screen that says “Please approve at least one advancement before running the Advancement Report” and there’s a box where I can view previous Advancement Reports, but there are no Advancement Reports listed for today. All badges were Approved and saved, and I can run an Advancement History Report that does show all the newly entered badges. Any ideas on how I can get the Advancement Report to print? I’m running Firefox 79.0 on a MacBook running macOS Mojave 10.14.3.

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**Author:** ![ShannonKarnosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@ShannonKarnosh](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/ShannonKarnosh)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/2 "2020-08-05T12:01:33Z")

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Same exact Issue here last night. Recorder 5 Ranks and 45+ Merit Badges into the system. Haven’t had issues in the past, was able to access reports just fine, download and print without problems.  
I know sometimes i would have to wait until the next morning for it to update, but, it was always there. Finish my report last night around 10PM, just checked on it and there is nothing.  
Waiting to see …

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Hornak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/scouting/user_avatar/discussions.scouting.org/stephen_hornak/32/16282_2.png) [@Stephen\_Hornak](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/Stephen_Hornak)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/3 "2020-08-05T12:35:24Z")

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I have noted the same thing, but was able to run the Advancement report in scoutbook itself.

 ![IA issue](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/scouting/original/2X/d/df58a42a6d04efc826a9144c1df24923d25eab69.png)

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**Author:** ![DarcyKendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@DarcyKendall](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/DarcyKendall)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/4 "2020-08-05T16:24:25Z")

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Yes, thanks Stephen, that’s the screen I see as well. I was logged in to Scoutbook when recording these advancement records and trying to print the report. This morning I’ve tried restarting Firefox and logging in to Scoutbook again–no change, and logged out. Then restarted Firefox again and logged in to [my.scouting.org](http://my.scouting.org) and tried that route, same problem. Using Safari instead of Firefox produced the same results. Is there some way to get technical assistance with Scoutbook or for Internet Advancement?

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**Author:** ![DonovanMcNeil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/scouting/user_avatar/discussions.scouting.org/donovanmcneil/32/24_2.png) [@DonovanMcNeil](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/DonovanMcNeil)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/5 "2020-08-05T16:26:35Z")

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The Developers are looking into this now

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**Author:** ![DarcyKendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@DarcyKendall](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/DarcyKendall)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/6 "2020-08-05T16:48:32Z")

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Great news–thank you!

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Hornak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/scouting/user_avatar/discussions.scouting.org/stephen_hornak/32/16282_2.png) [@Stephen\_Hornak](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/Stephen_Hornak)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/7 "2020-08-05T17:19:26Z")

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@DarcyKendall - what I was pointing out is that you can get the report from [scoutbook.com](http://scoutbook.com) until the issue at [scoutbook.scouting.org](http://scoutbook.scouting.org) is fixed.

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**Author:** ![DarcyKendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@DarcyKendall](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/DarcyKendall)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/8 "2020-08-05T19:32:53Z")

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Problem solved–thank you! Advancement Report generated and printed just fine via [scoutbook.scouting.org](http://scoutbook.scouting.org).

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**Author:** ![HeideXitco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@HeideXitco](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/HeideXitco)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/9 "2020-10-06T23:58:29Z")

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I want to delete a report and start over as I generated something that had a year’s worth of awards. Can a report be deleted, then allowed to update scoutbook, edit, etc. and then rerun an accurate report?

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**Author:** ![JenniferOlinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@JenniferOlinger](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/JenniferOlinger)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/cannot-run-advancement-report/174704/10 "2020-10-07T00:06:27Z")

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@HeideXitco You can close or delete Purchase Orders. It all depends on what you are trying to do.
