It would be nice to edit camping/hiking/service logs for activities that are still in progress. Waiting till after the event often results in forgetting to enter it, or sometimes missing a person. It would be nice to add activities to calendar events while they are still in progress and the scouts are standing there in front of you. So the feature request here is to change the date check on the locking code to be the start date/time of the event rather than the end.
@JonChuchla - so here is something to consider on your request. Things could change at any time during the duration of the event so how would you capture that ? I do not think it is a viable ask.
I can’t think of the last time that we’ve had a scout start a campout and not finish it. And if it were to happen, it’s the rare exception, far from the norm. The need for poet event corrections would be far less than what we’re currently seeing with forgotten data entry.
This topic came up at a roundtable last week as well. It’s very common that units are forgetting to enter logs after events, or they’ve chosen to skip this online feature altogether in favor of having scouts track it themselves the old fashioned way, in their paper scout book.
@JonChuchla - or the scout can track it themselves in scoutbook plus. That option exists
I get it, but what we’re seeing is that scouts usually don’t get their own access to scoutbook until a few years into their scouting career. Typically at around 12-13. So the burden of online data entry is still on us for the critical first few years.
Also, most non-leader parents never log into scoutbook.
@JonChuchla- my point is that dysfunctional units will exist no matter what you ask for. Better to fix them then try to build the service around them
I woulsn’r think it’s a dysfunction that a unit wanting to get ahead of the game and get the entry done before the event. That sounds like they’re being proactive, not dysfunctional. The way it’s currently set up, it’s creating an artificial limit that doesn’t actually exist. If we were still recording this stuff in kid’s paper books, we’d be doing it before we leave to go home. Not at some future date after it’s over.
As a software dev myself, I would argue that if the software doesn’t do what the user expects or wants it to do, it’s the software that is lacking, not the user.
@JonChuchla - the dysfunction is the units forgetting to enter things or choosing not to enter them at all. They are doing a dis-service to the scouts they serve.
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