Electronic completion dates on Eagle Scout Applications don't agree with physical blue cards because of the Scoutbook bug

This is still a problem and makes the date on the Eagle Scout Application different than the physical blue cards. The electronic date was noted on the blue cards but this problem may effect Eagle Boards of Review if adults don’t understand what is happening in their review. The person in a previous - now closed - discussion summarized it well and its still happening.

“I have found that when scoutbook is adding completion dates for merit badges it is putting the date I entered the requirements and not the date of completion. Where this is happening in situations where a requirement has something along the lines of “Do A or B” or “Do 4 of the following”. The sub requirements (ex. 2a, 2b, 2c…) will have their actual dates but the main requirement (ex. 2) that is checked off by scoutbook itself (you cannot check or uncheck this box yourself) is getting the date of the day I entered the requirements. This in turn ends up making the completion date for the entire badge the date the requirements were entered instead of the actual completion date…”

This bug was fixed, but you need to go in and remove one of the individual requirements and then add it back in order to get the parent requirement to reset.

@KathrynOrta What is the previous discussion that you are referring to?

Edited to add: I found it here:

https://discussions.scouting.org/t/merit-badge-dates-wrong-when-added-by-scoutbook/437881

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