When a group of scouts work on the same merit badge together - as often happens at summer camp - you're going to need to sign off on all of the completed requirements for each scout.
Rather than do this one scout at a time, you can use this function to update all of their records together.
Go to Advancement → Maintain Advancement → Enter Merit Badge Requirements For A Group to see the page shown below.
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Select the merit badge you wish to process and then click Continue.
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Enter the date on which these requirements were completed.
If you select a merit badge counselor, the system will assign that merit badge counselor to all of the scouts you select who have not yet been assigned a merit badge counselor for this badge.
If you enter a comment it will be appended to any existing comment on this badge for the selected scouts.
Then click the plus (+) sign to open up the requirements list.
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Select the requirements that you worked on and click the minus (-) sign in the header row to close this section.
Click the plus (+) sign on the scouts header to view the list of scouts.
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Check off the scouts who completed these requirements. Don't worry if some of these scouts had already earned some of these requirements; the system will bypass requirements that
were already marked complete for a given scout.
Then scroll to the bottom of the page to click Save.
These requirements will immediately be marked complete for the selected scouts, unless:
- They've already completed the requirement, or
- They've already completed the merit badge, or
- They are already working on a different version of this merit badge.
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