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There’s been some discussion on linking events to adventures so that the adventure is marked complete automatically based on attendance records. There are some justifiable concerns with that idea, although in my opinion, marking adventures as “completed” but not “approved” seems like a good middle ground.
As a more flexible alternative, I propose a feature to start Unit Quick Entry from a past calendar event, use the UQE interface as usual to select an adventure, and then automatically “check” all the scouts who attended, before proceeding as normal. Our pack has large ranks, so when I complete this task on my phone, I either have to flip back and forth from attendance to UQE or write down the attendance on a sheet of paper.
@MichaelAkerman - I would agree with Ed on this point of the den leaders should be responsible for the advancement entries and items for their respective dens.. otherwise why have them in that role.
Oh, I’m sorry, I said that in a misleading way. Last year I was doing advancements for the den I was leading, which is the same as the entire rank in our pack (so far). That means it was, at most, 18 scouts in my den.
Not that it matters to this feature request (which is fundamentally about how Scoutbook has us record the same information twice, which should be avoided), but I’m the new Cubmaster as of a few weeks ago, and I’m implementing a plan to divide our dens into smaller units as recommended by Scouting America. I expect we won’t fully realize that goal until next year, however, as there’s a belief that the current system is working just fine (unless, of course, you’re the one leading a den of 20 scouts), and even once we are at 6-8 scouts per leader, it’s still a case of duplicate or very-near-duplicate record keeping.
