Cross-populating awards

Scoutbook New Scoutbook Feature Requests
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This request was made back in 2019, and I hope to revive the discussion. Just about every BSA Award has pre-requisites that are already marked complete in ScoutBook, but do not cross-populate. So with every award, it is necessary to pull an advancement report so those requirements can be checked off - again. This becomes particularly arduous when dealing with a number of Scouts who completed a requirement for an Adventure together, but have other pre-requisites that they accomplished at different times - or those pre-requisites differ.

I understand that this is a coding issue, and that IT support is thin stretched (I think that’s just a common theme all around), but this really can’t be that difficult, since the actual Merit Badges or other Awards match in name. I also found that TroopMaster does this automatically, and that platform was created more than 20 years ago.

Thank you.

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These are up dated when an award or Merit Badge changes is the policy

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Which awards specifically?

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I have not gone through many so far - I only became the Awards Coordinator in SB two days ago - but found, for example:

  • Boy Scout Nova Award - Let It Grow! Requirements - MB requirements do not check off when earned
    o I assume this holds true for all Nova awards. This same issue made entering Cub Scout Nova awards such a chore.
  • Paul Bunyan Woodsman Award - Our whole Troop has the Totin’ Chip and the Firem’n Chit, yet I had to manually enter these in for every Scout (some were made easier because they were earned on the same date)
  • International Spirit Award requires the Citizenship in the World MB. But the requirement is not automatically checked off when the MB is earned.

Just a few examples I was able to identify in the past two days.

Thank you

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