Merit badge advancement access no longer working in Scoutbook

As a Troop leader, when I view a Scout’s profile and click on “Scout’s Merit Badges” and then click on an open merit badge, it displays an error if the merit badge is also one for which I am assigned as a merit badge counselor:

“Whoops! We encountered an error trying to process your request.

Please go to https://discussions.scouting.org/c/scoutbook/bugs to report this issue.

This seems to have started with the latest Scoutbook update. It happens for all Scout/badge combinations I try.

@ErikHix- scouts bsa is now in advancements.scouting.org

@ErikHix ok that is good data - have been trying to figure out how users where seeing that error - will get it reported

If it’s listed in ScoutBook it should either work or redirect to ScoutBook Plus, not just display a random error message. This is a bug, not a feature.

The behavior is different based on whether or not I am a counselor for the badge I click on. If I’m not, it displays options to adjust the assigned counselor and links for editing completion either for counselors or unit leaders.

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It works on test server just not on live server - so was hitting it at wrong place

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So hopefully it will be fixed in the next update?

Hopefully.

Since you are both the leader and MBC, your workaround is to use Scoutbook Plus (https://advancements.scouting.org) to approve the MB reqs. You will not see a Counselor Approve button but you will see Leader Approved.

@ErikHix we have no idea when things will be fixed - we only report issues

Why did posted notes on merit badge requirements not get transferred over to SB+?

@BrianCarter2,

There’s a known issue that the notes aren’t displaying. From some of the other posts, it sounds like an API issue that’s being worked.

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