Single BSAID across Scouting America (I.e. multiple councils)

[DeborahBennett]

My feature request is to support a single BSAID per scout or adult. Right now a BSAID is per council. This causes several problems:

• a scout registered in two units which are in different councils
  must have a separate BSAID in each council. It confuses the scout, the parent, and the unit leaders. It makes tracking advancement cumbersome, since neither unit’s leader can see the scout’s advancement records from the other unit. The unit leaders must coordinate manually. This is a manual process subject to human error. In our council, it is not unusual for a scout to join a Scouts BSA unit in one council, and a Sea Scout or Venturing unit in a nearby council. I live in Silicon Valley, and there are three councils within 30 miles of my house

• scouts who move to another council may need to seek administrative help here to move their existing advancement records to their new BSAID in the new council. This is a manual process subject to human error.

References:

Can a BSA scout participate in two troops in two different councils? How does that work in scoutbook?

My son would like to participate in his friend’s troop as a secondary troop and his own troop as a primary troop. Is there any way to register with both troops in Scoutbook? The troops are in 2 different councils. Thanks!

Merge duplicate BSA ID and ScoutBook User numbers

Bear with me. We have a Scout who moved to our area at the end of 2023 and joined our Troop on 1/19/24. Old unit - Indian River Council 553 Paid through 12/31/23 ScoutBook User Number 2662841 Primary BSA ID 136451793 Pervious BSA ID 135725873 Moved and paid at Central Georgia Council 96 on 1/19/24 Council did not process registration until May and at that time created a profile with a misspelled last name. ScoutBook User number 13704828 BSA ID 140924064 The Scout’s dad could not connect…

https://discussions.scouting.org/t/scoutbook-architecture-person-records/210165/2

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@DeborahBennett

This is not in the purview of the SUAC or Scoutbook team. Just about everyone would like this but it is a much larger issue than just IT. This is one of those issues that needs to be pushed by Councils as they have paths to the decision makers that can put the necessary work in place to make this happen.