Folks, I’ve been an advancement coordinator for ages… I’ve entered tons of them. But today, it’s erroring on me like this: [image] Please advise. I’ve never seen scoutbook error on a merit badge like this!!! -Phillip

The Unit Advancement Chair functional position in my.scouting.org (which is what is used for access permissions to the logs in IA2) has to be re-set every year by one of the unit Key 3 (SM/CC/COR) in the Organizational Security Manager under the left-side menu at my.scouting.org . The functional pos…

yeah, I had mine reset a few weeks ago, just after the new year. That problem has a different symptom. With that problem the darned “internet advancement” section is just unavailable to click on. I’ve had similar cases like this in the past, but it’s always been obvious what the problem was (like…

Hrm…check the scout’s membership page in Scoutbook for a spurious membership in another unit. Sometimes that fouls things, particularly if it’s a pack membership.

I think this is probably the same issue as this other thread: [image] Error when recording merit badge Internet Advancement When I try to record a competed merit badge for a scout and hit record and finish the system gives me an error “Error An error occurred while pro…

The developers were able to reproduce the error message. They are working on a fix, but I do not have an ETA.

You should be able to use scoutbook.scouting.org to record the MB while the Internet Advancement developers are working to fix the bug. The systems write to the same database but use different methods so you should not be affected by the problem.

FWIW I receive the same error message when trying to access the 2019 Activities Calendar (not 2018 or before, not 2020 or 2021). Never had an issue before. Developers are looking into it but it’s been a week or two. I’ve also had some strange issues this week entering scouts into an Activity (it wil…

Yep, same issue on 10 merit badges trying to record. Never had an issue before.

The developers are aware of the bug. I do not have an ETA on when it might be fixed.

getting error message when i try to save merit badge completion. [image]

Error on merit badge advancement entry

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JenniferOlinger February 12, 2021, 10:01pm 5

I think this is probably the same issue as this other thread:

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Error on merit badge advancement entry

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