Merit Badges supported by each MBC not in council report

[Bill_W]

Council challenge: A “Council Merit Badge Counselors Listing” report is “empty”. Anyone have any idea why the report would be blank?

@JamesBrown13

… in our council, for whatever reason, the report is blank. Our director of support services and our registrar both have access to the report but when they run it the report has no data. It’s completely blank. There are no merit badge counselors listed.

And, to save time, yes, we have people registered in Scoutnet as position 42. Yes they have merit badges assigned. Yes, they get pulled into ScoutBook through the automated system. All of that is working as anticipated. Just the my.scouting report is blank. And, unfortunately, you can no longer run a merit badge counselor report out of ScoutNet because “that’s been moved to my.scouting” (except it obviously hasn’t in our case).

My council has called, emailed, begged, sent smoke signals, pleaded, created help system tickets, etc. all with no results. No one seems to be able to fix it …

Most of the discussion on this issue is in:

How do district and council volunteers get access to the merit badge counselor list in SB?

As the council advancement committee member over merit badge counselors, I need access to the list of merit badge counselors. Similarly, my counterparts (who are on my committee) from each district need access to the list of counselors. In addition, our council lone Scout coordinator needs access to the counselor list. As far as I can see, there is no way to grant this access in Scoutbook. I assume this is not a problem unique to my council. Every council has responsibility to maintain the meri…

[Bill_W]

Related references:

New MBC list report in my.scouting.org

New Merit Badge Counselor list report in my.scouting.org for council members, district committee members and commissioners. Log into http://my.scouting.org Go to your council or district Click on Roster Click on Reports Depending on how your council registers your MBCs they may only show on the council level report. More information is here.

New MBC report list issue

Continuing the discussion from New MBC list report in my.scouting.org: Great news that we have easy access to a current MBC list. However, the report will only sort by MB counselor name or city. It would really be helpful if we can easily sort by Merit Badge. This is how you would look for an available MBC for a specific badge. Currently, all of a MBC’s badges are lumped (concatenated) in a single field. Yes, It can be broken down and placed in multiple fields using some Excel “black magic…

Who approves district-registered counselors and mentors? Maintains directories?

This topic is about counselors and mentors registered at the district level. Where directories (and lists) are maintained and how information is distributed can vary by council. Where is the information? Unit commissioners need to know how units can obtain Merit badge contact information. For units there are four environments: a. Council is uploading MBC data to Scoutbook. Unit leader has access to Scoutbook. b. Council is uploading MBC data to Scoutbook, Unit leader does not have access to…

Documents:

• Registration Guidebook of the BSA (June 2019)

[JamesBrown13]

So it turns out that it works for me. I don’t know if the council staff were not patient enough or if something changed as a result of my posts here.

At any rate, the report works. I’ll create a new topic for all the issues with this report.

[Bill_W]

Glad to see it is now available to you as a council key-3 delegate.

@JamesBrown13

So it turns out that it works for me. I don’t know if the council staff were not patient enough or if something changed as a result of my posts here.

At any rate, the report works. I’ll create a new topic for all the issues with this report.

BSA IT does not monitor these forums. The proper route for reporting technical problems is via a technical report filed by the council staff (I assume still via JIRA). BSA IT does not have the staff or time to respond to all councils.

It takes time for changes to be made by BSA IT.

The schedule for moving data between systems and this case a new application may have been irregular and different.

[Bill_W]

@JamesBrown13

So it turns out that it works for me.

No longer an issue for this council.