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I have an activity that was added for a scout’s Eagle project. I’m trying to enter the scouts and hours using the advanced tab, and when I click ‘Edit and Finish’ I get the following error: Error validating JSON. Error - Invalid type Null, expected integer for userid (org.mule.module.apkit.exception.BadRequestException
The record won’t save at all - need the error fixed.
I’m still getting the “Error Validating JSON” error when trying to edit a hike on either my or my son’s profile. I emailed Scoutbook Support and got this…
"Due to the unusual circumstances of 2020, Member Care Contact Center will no longer be able to support volunteers. Please contact your local council for support.
If you do not know your council’s contact information, you may find it by going to Scouting.org, select Join from the banner at the top of the page, and enter your zip code. The council information will display at the top right corner of the screen.
If your council needs assistance with your issue, they will call the member care contact center.
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I don’t think our council can do anything about this. I guess I’ll just wait.
It’s not so much that the council will fix it themselves, but rather that we as volunteers no longer have direct access to member care. It all has to filter through the council professional personnel, which usually means trying to explain something to someone who isn’t generally familiar with Scoutbook, who then has to explain it to member care (who often isn’t familiar with Scoutbook, either) and hope that it can get escalated to the right folks who do understand Scoutbook. It’s a soup sandwich most of the time, from what I’ve heard, unless it’s actually something related to ScoutNet, with which the registrars are generally familiar, or you get lucky and your council has a ScoutbookNerdTM on staff. The best luck anyone I know personally has had was by sending an email to their council, and asking their council to pass it along unchanged through their internal channels to the folks at member care/Scoutbook support. It took a while, but they eventually got their issue (I forget exactly what it was) straightened out.