I was processing awards for our pack and thought I was missing an item I ordered. When I opened the purchase order in Scoutbook Plus, I noticed many of the items and scouts were missing. Looking into it further, I found that when I marked an adventure as awarded, it disappeared from the PO. I tried viewing the report in different ways but the only items left are those not marked as awarded. Shouldn’t these items remain on the PO regardless of whether they have been awarded or not?
No. The idea of the PO is to list items that need purchasing. If it’s been awarded, there’s no need to purchase it.
ETA: If you’re awarding out of stock (e.g. immediate recognition items) and want to refresh stock, you could leave it un-Awarded until the PO is finalized or you can manually track how many you awarded, then add back on to the PO later.
ETA2: Ed raises a good point about closed vs open POs.
Are you referring to open purchase orders? An item that is awarded does not need to be purchased and thus will drop off an open PO.
Closed POs are supposed to be locked and items not removed.
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OK - this seems like different behavior than Scoutbook. I recall checking open PO’s in the past as I was awarding items. I will close future PO’s before starting to mark things as awarded. Thanks for the clarification.
