Trying to add additional hours to an ongoing Messengers of Peace service project. Have always (previously) been able to add individual hours for each Scout + hours for myself and hit save. Project end date is listed as 2025. I am a Key 3, and have Admin access. The error I get says: “/benefitGroup expected type: String, found: Null” and it looks like this:
Who is listed as the beneficiary on the service activity page? I think the system believes that value/cell is empty.
I too am Key 3 with admin access and am receiving the exact same error message - when trying to add Scouts to both service projects and to campouts. In response to the suggested solution, there is nowhere to list a beneficiary for either the service project or (not surprisingly) the camping nights.
I admit I am somewhat relieved to hear someone else had this issue. I hope it is resolved soon.
I am getting the same exact error message as well.
DEVs know about this error
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Thanks, @DonovanMcNeil! I’m glad to see your face on this thread-- I appreciate all the work you do in these forums!
@AlisonStevens, my only thought (currently) is that perhaps the “beneficiary” in this instnce has more to do with theinterrealtionship with the calendar? The service project I was trying to update did not originally have a “linked event” on our calendar… it seems like there’s a possibility that there’s some euphemistic code-talking going on, the “beneficiary” is the name for a relationship between database items… all that having been said, adding a “linked event” didn’t solve the problem for me! 
Good question, @CharleyHamilton-- there’s no field on the service page that readily identifies itself as a “beneficiary”… I have some thoughts about it possibly being a euphemism for an associated event in the calendar database, explained below, though!
This is happening to me as well. If I create a new event I can enter everything and save it fine. If I try to edit an existing event I get the error described.
I often enter events ahead of time and then edit it after the event to add the scouts who participated and their hours/hiking/camping details. I noticed there is a new field “Initiative” or maybe I just hadn’t noticed it before. Has something changed recently behind the scenes?
My work around is to create new events and delete the ones I had already entered. Definitely not ideal, but it works for now until a real fix is in place.
For clarification any edit at all to an existing activity triggers the error–adding a scout, changing the time, changing a single letter in the description, etc.
But I can create a brand new event and include as much or little information in any of those fields then save it fine.
@ChristopherLow – agreed, trashing the previous version and creating a new version with updated info is about the only “workaround” that works, currently… but (as you say), far from ideal!
@AlisonStevens @VasudhaNalluru @ChristopherLow All-- I just did an attempted update of the service project listed above (generally, you just have to keep testing the problem, as the DEVs are occupied fixing things, not necessarily updating folks on what they’ve fixed)-- and IT WORKED! Try updating a similar project of yours, should you have one handy… Mine worked tonight!
Thank you, as always, DEV team… and thank you, @DonovanMcNeil! Your presence on a subject often portends a solution!
Thanks @tristandalley for the heads up - it worked for me too! My error message is gone and I’m able to record service hours and camping nights in Scoutbook again. Yay!
Huge thanks too to @DonovanMcNeil and the DEV team.
Worked for me as well, and I was able to successfully record service hours again.
Yes, confirmed I’m able to edit existing events to add what needs to be recorded! Thanks to all involved!
FWIW, I was getting that error message a few days ago as well, and the issue was that “initiative” field - if left blank when trying to update the service project it would result in the error message. But that field only had two options - Scouting for Food, and something else I can’t remember - you couldn’t add a new option. I set it to Scouting for Food for events, and that fixed the updating problem. As a previous poster mentioned, that field has been removed.
The bug was related to the “Initiative” field, but the bug has been fixed now.
