Looking for a way to track participation in the fundraisers and be searchable or displayable in a report.
Use case, we track fundraising and target goals for the scouts as a way to qualify them for the pack to cover registration fees. It would be cool to see a place to track the scouts participation in each of the different fundraisers and maybe be able to track a flag for goal met or a total sales amount.
@CurtisNess- as scoutbook is an advancement tool I do not think development resources would be spent on custom fundraising tracking
@CurtisNess I can pass it along to the developers as it feels a little like a one-off of the payment logs. I agree with Stephen that it seems like a longshot that it will ever be prioritized (my opinion only). That said, are you just talking about tracking sales totals? Using the payment log functionality as a starting point, what would need to differ?
This maybe came off a bit wrong. In Scoutbook Plus you can track Service Hours, Camping Hours and other Activity Logs. What I would be looking for is a way to track participation in the fundraisers, not track the fundraisers themselves.
Example:
The reasoning behind this is our pack covers all registration fees (National and Council), advancement fees (patches, pins, loops) and crossover fees (books/neckerchief) for those scouts who did their best at the Popcorn fundraiser. Currently we need to manage this data in a spreadsheet and crosswalk between Scoutbook Plus and the spreadsheet. Managing a pack of 20 scouts it was easy. With over 40 scouts this year it is proving to be a labor intensive endeavor.
Note it could also be a great way to track participation and show the scouts their growth in sales each year as well. I would just prefer to not use the service hours part to track this as its not service hours…
In reality, the ability to add “custom fields” to a scout’s record with visibility settings to allow us as leaders to see the data but not the parents would let us flag scouts as well for these sorts of management tasks…
Things similar are in the backlog - but I bet will never be addressed - it is just way to complex and variable (unit to unit).
You can use Google Sheets much more effectively to track this.
OK, completely understand the specificity of this request. What about moving to a significantly more generic view of this and go to a “Miscellaneous” or “Other” Activity Log? Store data in a super basic format as follows:
Then allow scouts to be added to the Other activity…
This would be good to track participation in any activity that doesn’t fit under Camping, Hiking or Service Hours. Packs/Troops could use this for anything they would like to track and could use the existing “Activity Logs” portion of Scoutbook.
There is a story in the backlog to expand the activity logs. We cannot say when it will be scheduled for development but I can say it will not be scheduled until legacy Scoutbook is retired.
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