Help Needed: Unable to Merge Girls Troop into Boys Troop Account

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We are a linked troop that participated in the co-ed pilot program. Our council has been trying for several months to merge our girls troop roster into the boys troop within the my.scouting.org system, but they’ve been unsuccessful.

I’ve heard that there is supposed to be an option on the my.scouting platform to identify linked boy/girl troops, but it appears that our council is unable to access or enable it.

Can someone assist me in merging our linked girls troop into the boys troop, or has anyone found a way to manage both rosters from a single location? This would greatly help us streamline data entry and simplify administration.

Thank you.

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@KeriSnyder all pilot problems are to only be reported to council - National Guidelines - Councils can use their tools to ask for national assistance if needed

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Unfortunately, I’ve been asking for months, but the issue still isn’t resolved. The council has told me multiple times that it’s been fixed, but the changes never actually go through. Are there steps that can I can provide them with to assist with this?

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As Donovan said, all pilot unit issues have to be reported through council. If whatever they are trying isn’t working, they need to push it back to national via their professional staff channels. It’s frustrating, but those are the rules the SUAC team has been given to play by.

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@KeriSnyder council can send in a National Membercare ticket on the issue

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Thank you. I will encourage that pathway.

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We’re in the combined pilot. The boys and girls troops aren’t merged. You need to pick which troop will be primary, then multiple the scouts from the other troop into the primary troop. In our case, we chose our boys troop as the primary because it is larger, and multipled the girls into it. The girls troop continues to exist on paper (and in SB). Your council should have asked you which troop was primary and which was secondary, so they could allow the multipling. At this point, though, you may just want to wait it out, since National is supposed to make a determination about combined troops by the end of the summer. If they approve it, there will be more technical changes coming, and if they don’t you’ll go back to linked troops.

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Once you provided the Primary Troop to your Council, they need (ed) to add Special Interest Type Combined Troop Pilot to the primary Troop.

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