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The old “Print Roster” was perfect for priting a list of Scouts and parents, for check-in at our events. We have a pack meeting tonight, I went to print the roster, and found this new things that doesn’t even work. Either the PDF is empty except for the organization info header, or if I check the “Scouts” box, it lists a ton of info for each one that shouldn’t be printed out (addresses, phone numbers, birthdays – even though those boxes are UNchecked in the Roster Builder). 8 pages long instead of 1.
So much for having a simple list we can use at events for attendance… back to Excel… could you at least not break things when you add new features?
Works fine when I try it. Select “Scouts” and click on the little “>” next to it, and unselect the options you don’t want to see. Here’s what I get with these options…
Oh – I see the little caret. So check the box “with options below”, and then you HAVE to check something else (e.g. Den) or you still get an empty report. Still no way to just print their names; still 4 sheets of paper instead of 1. I liked the old format with the parents’ names next to them, but maybe it’ll be improved.
The Scouts print properly, but NONE of the adult names are displayed when I build a roster with leaders. It looks like there’s a bug in the reporting for adults only that is not pulling the Name and BSA ID (notice how the address is in the Name-BSA Number column). The data is shifted to the left and doesn’t line up with the correct column. HELP!
I need a report with the scout’s name, his parents/family members who are connected with him, and their email addresses and phone numbers. Anyone know how I can get this? Thanks!
I agree with original poster… the old Print Roster function allowed me to get a clean table with each scout and their parent’s contact all on the same row.
The new Print Roster, has a few more features but results in a format that is not ideal.
Is there a way we can have the old feature back as well?
The limit of two Parents/Guardians has been removed because we got requests to list all Parents/Guardians. Because of that, report width would be unpredictable to list them on a single row and PDFs would be affected. Hence the more vertical listing of Parents/Guardians. The CSV export will do it for you in a single row. (There is an update coming very soon to fix some CSV issues).
