Scoutbook was working perfectly fine as its own application. I can not see why BSA saw a need to integrate it with Internet Advancement. Let me rephrase. If anything, Internet Advancement should integrate with scoutbook, not the other way around. Because of this change, the ability to easily add…

Thanks for comments. At least I know I’m not crazy. In terms of data management this is simply not that hard. If the “central office” wants to keep records about activity, there should be no reason that they can’t scrape the data out of scoutbook. There is part of me that says push decision making…

Hello, I need help to understand in scoutbook. on the internet advancement roster appear some children with a yellow symbol, among them inactive children and others that if they are active, that there appear inactive, how to fix that with those that if they are active?

Yep. Awful. I didn’t realize this had happened. I can’t even enter camping nights. I can only run reports of what’s been approved.

Agreed - the databases that power Scoutbook could easily be migrated and synchronized to the databases of the national council data warehouse and then they could analyze the data and sync it back to whatever applications they want.

Has anyone heard from Nationals on this? It is stupid that we now have 2 systems. Surely Scoutbook can feed whatever nationals is trying to get out of this. But making it harder for the rest of us is silly.

I have not seen anything from National as to why this change was needed. It was really great to have been informed before it happened (just kidding). As the ACM, I was able to approve all service, hiking or camping activities in SB before. Now - I can not. I am not a Key 3 in the pack. I don’t know …

Dont be surprised if the person who made the decision was fired! I noticed on the BSA Redit that the National Office fired a good number of people in recent weeks.

[image] RobertEberhart: I don’t know how many packs or troops have a COR with an active role, but it feels like National locked down these activities without explanation. I think we deserve to know why as leaders and/or parents, we are no longer seen as trustworthy or honest There is a pretty…

I AM a key-3 as the Scoutmaster for my troop, only national hasn’t updated their database since the recharter, so I can’t go to IA and enter things yet. Things I used to be able to do in Scoutbook but can no longer do! I wish they would update the database rather than spend more time updating the va…

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JeremyBlevins August 3, 2020, 6:08pm 14

I agree with the sentiments of the other posters on this topic. The BSA needs to adopt some type of maturity model with regards to its technical solutions. One thing that would be great would be a change control board to review changes such as this, and run them by some of the more technical volunteer Scouters to reduce bad roll-outs.

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