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I reported this issue back on the old legacy forum and the developers fixed it but now someone has gone and undone the fix.
Its common for Scouts and registered adults to work less than an full hour on service projects. Before today, I could enter their time in tenth’s of an hour (i.e., 0.5, 1.7, 3.4). However, when this morning I tried to post service hours for an Eagle project, IA2 forced me to either round up or round down to the nearest whole hour the amount of time that the Scouts worked. Specifically, it would not allow me to enter the “.” and a number after it.
Forcing units to round up service hours renders the report untrustworthy and send the message to Scouts that they don’t really have to meet the full service time requirement; rounding down cheats the Scout out of service hours they performed. All of those tenths of an hour add up over time.
I was entering two different service projects. It took a decimal when everyone had the same amount of time. When I had to enter time individually, it would not allow me to enter decimals.
@DonovanMcNeil - technical question on this. How does an eagle service project get entered. I see the assisted on an eagle project but not a direct eagle project unless i am missing something.
At one point the plan was for it first to be the Eagle Proposal in an electronic form like Eagle App - then it could be marked approved and transition to this (I said I was not sure that was needed and am not sure where it lies now)
@CharlesOlson - you may be able to use the dev tools in firefox to capture where this fails…just a thought. I would suggest a test project with capture on.
