Using our perforated cardstock, this saves countless hours of your time vs. having to complete all of these cards by hand. Your unit roster Scouts and Adults should already be in Scoutbook. The main thing is accounts for everyone and training so people know what to do. With Scoutbook you can create customizable calendar of events, Easily import your data from Scoutbook to get started managing your records in TroopMaster. Our Troop had an out of council Life scout transfer in earlier this year. Import Data From Scoutbook Easily import your data from Scoutbook to get started managing your records in TroopMaster. Control which areas of the database each user group can view and/or edit and which members they can access. troopmaster-to-scoutbook. adjust as necessary. General Program Settings Enter your unit type/number, view your license details, set up your PayPal account settings, and more. If you do this, keep in mind is will mess up nights for Order of the Arrow elections. properly for your unit. We do like SOAR, just dont like manually maintaining two lists. height: 500px; hard-copy resources. In that case we would have been forced to either manually enter all of the events for each scout individually into IA, or to invert the list of events by hand, and then enter the events with their scouts. I cannot believe that there isnt a more automatic way to do this. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Advice on migrating from SOAR and Troopmaster to Scoutbook. User Accounts/Passwords Merit Badge Counselors: This is currently an unknown. Learn more. Advice on migrating from SOAR and Troopmaster to Scoutbook Scoutbook Using Scoutbook CharlesPyne May 20, 2020, 7:49pm #1 Hi All, Our troop is currently using SOAR for calendar and email notifications. Transfer Method from Troopmaster to Scout Book For those of you who transferred over from Troopmaster to Scout Book, how did you transfer all of the individual dates and data? Moving forward, we would input the data into IA instead of TroopMaster. Go to your unit page in Scoutbook. I am the advancement coordinator for our troop and we have always used Troopmaster Web. Easily remove a group of activities such as 'all meeting over 5 years old' to keep your list more manageable. Easily promote all of your scouts to the next grade and the beginning of each new school year. No response so far, unfortunately. Im not sure if I can pull similar reports from IA. Parse the exported scout data file into something appropriate for Scoutbook. Please use Send Now to send calendar messages. Units should not be entering MBCs. Scoutbook is also free and I think we were paying $75/yr for Troopmaster. Now we would like to use Scoutbook . ok, thanks. This took a while. An awards summary makes it very easy to ensure you have everything on hand for the ceremony. Click "Add All>>", Adult.txt file: For the Pack, Troop or Crew receiving the transfer: Step 1: One of the Key 3 (or Key 3 delegates) logs into their. I wish I could provide a turnkey solution but You have to enter an end date for their service and they will not be in your roster any more. Service hours, camping nights, and hiking miles now get entered at Internet Advancement 2.0. Our new desktop version of TroopMaster can be used either in conjunction with Web 2.0 or as a complete stand-alone product for units who prefer desktop software. If they do, then we need to look at that gap in the export/import process. Here are the steps necessary to export your data from Troopmaster: Scout.txt file: communicate with parents of absent Scouts about what their kids View your unit activity details directly in your personal Gmail or other calendar. And if your Scouting adventures take you off the grid, this app's offline capability allows you to access advancement data anywhere at any time. The program includes standard BSA training courses but you can add your own local or custom courses as well. This is interesting data on camping and activities. Parse the activity report into something appropriate for Scoutbook. easy-to-use interface. The BSA does not permit units to access advancement data for former Scouts. Merit Badge Counselors: This is currently an unknown. Scoutbook is your go-to tool to ensure not a moment is missed - I am a competent Python programmer. Reports -> Activities -> Individual Activities You should utilize ScoutNET for all completed advancement and training For the alumni, I may look into a email list service such as mailchimp, constant contact, etc. Transitioning to Scoutbook from a Third Party Application (SB). Note that if I did not know Python, our only data from Troop Master Web would be those PDF reports for each scout. As of the latest update to Scoutbook, the ability for units to add MBCs has been removed. Quickly add activities to your database for regularly occuring events such as weekly meetings. Press the Export button to create a file. https://www.scoutbook.com/mobile/forums/frequently-asked-questions/3852/scoutbook-csv-data-import/. adult.py Maintenance Advisory. Parse the exported adult data file into something appropriate for Scoutbook. that would need to be transferred into Scoutbook. Date Format: MM/DD/YYYY Its probably important that whomever is going to be doing the administration become familiar with how the logs work now, since it is a significant departure from how the logs previously worked in Scoutbook. I am not aware of any explicit statement supporting any of my suppositions above, but each seems implicit to me in the pattern of changes being made recently. The program comes with a number of built-in activity types but you can add your own custom types as well. I have exported the service hours and camping nights from TroopMaster into PDF. @LisaR Did you get any response? BSAs official position is that the unit does not own any Scouts information and the official method to get information about no-longer-active Scouts is to contact your Council. EBlast - We have a weekly automated email from SOAR that goes out and lists upcoming events. It contains information about each scout in your troop and his parents. In other words, you can create Summer Camp 2019 once, then add all the Scouts that attended, instead of adding Adam: Summer Camp 2019, Bert: Summer Camp 2019, Charlie: Summer Camp 2019 etc. Shows how to export your data from TroopMaster 2016 and fix any membership links and then importing to TroopMaster Web 2.0 .jumbotron .section-inner { TroopMaster also has full support for Varsity, Venturing, and Sea Scout units. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. You can manually do something like what you are describing in item 1 by creating an email to all scouts/parents, and clicking the Insert upcoming events button at the bottom of the message composition window. Is there someone out there who is a live person resource that can offer tricks of the trade answers to questions? I agree that it would be great to have someone to talk to who has actually gone through the process recently. }. Select area: Scout Data Check Include field names as first line of export There is currently no import capability for the activity logs. If your pack, troop, crew, or ship is already using Scoutbook, And if your Scouting adventures take you Edit activity, attendance, and other details on your unit's activities. Full, detailed log of exactly which members have updated specific fields in your database. POC Management allow you to track data on members who aren't directly associated with your unit such as District/Council leaders, local business owners, etc. Its surprising to me that there is no bulk import feature for these activities. Create custom permission slips for your upcoming activities. Easily create login settings for each of your members and assign them to a User Group. His former troop used Troopmaster and we use ScoutBook. Rep.) to go to my.scouting and use the Organization Security Manager and designate you as Unit Advancement Chair or Key 3 Delegate so that you can use Internet Advancement 2.0. excellent time to start. This forum has a treasure trove of great info Scouters helping Scouters! The first file you should transfer from ScoutBook is the Scout file. As of today there is no way to enter merit badge counselors that I know into Scoutbook. Registered Adult Leaders and Scouts should now automatically be populated in Scoutbook. certainly import your Troopmaster files and Scoutbook does support This took a while. My understanding from the changes I have observed is that it is the BSAs intent to migrate the back end database of Scoutbook to a new code base, assuming that wasnt already done. Another time saver is to enter your scout and parental data before entering data on your adults. If you kept Internet Advancement 2.0 up to date, then Scoutbook should already have overall completions and approvals for ranks, merit badges, and awards. Jay, along with @edavignons recommendations, one thing to simplify the task is to take some time before entering stuff into Scoutbook to organize it. Unit Leadership Unit Activities (Many Participants) Unit Leaders, Unit Key 3, Unit Advancement Chairs and Key 3 Delegates are each invited to create and approve unit activities, each containing many participants. We have more than 65 scouts. send text messaging alerts to Scouts and parents, easily access Members: All Scouts This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. This contains information about each adult leader in your troop. Thats more a philosophical argument, though. along the way. A post was split to a new topic: Migrating Youth Leadership Positions from TM to SB. Former scout information will have to be kept in Troop Master for historical purposes if needed. Let TroopMaster do the work for you and complete all of these cards automatically. In the end we had about 250 events! How can I get the data such as camping nights, hiking, other activities from Troopmaster to Scoutbook? It might be a way to avoid manual maintenance. Are you sure you want to create this branch? Remember where you created the file so you can find it later! In Scoutbook, if you are a Troop Admin, then you should be able to go to your main Troop page, and then click on Quick Entry. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. Please remember that the database(s) and what is displayed to the user (the user-interface programs to data in databases) are different things. Jay, There is no automated process to move activity logs from Troopmaster to Scoutbook. Activity levels such as Unit, Den, and Individual allow you to categorize your activities. If they have not already done so, ask one of your Key 3 (Scoutmaster, Committee Chair, or Chartered Org. Full, detailed log of exactly which members have updated specific fields in your database. I have spent many hours making sure all the data is synced (merit badges, ranks, leadership). Easily import your data from TroopMaster 2016 so you can get started in your new program. unit, giving every leader more of what they need most: TIME. Format: Comma delimited The program includes many standard BSA special awards but you can add your own local or custom awards as well. Step 5: Click on Pending Acceptance. At this time I have no idea what IA2 platform means. Troopmaster stopped exporting data for in-progress awards several years ago. Use Git or checkout with SVN using the web URL. Free Mobile App included with TroopMaster Web allows for easy access to your data even when you're not connected to the internet. Edit and manage activities and events for your unit. We are now manually entering all 250 events into Internet Advancement. 2020 Boy Scouts of America - All Rights Reserved, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, find out how to set up a unit in Scoutbook. Troopmaster info transferred into Scoutbook. robmba 1 yr. ago. Members: All Adults Hi All, Our scout troop wants to transition form TroopMaster to Scoutbook. .jumbotron .section-inner { So unbeknownst to the SM and myself (ASM), the committee has migrated to Scoutbook from Troopmaster and let the Troopmaster subscrption lapse. I dont think Troopmaster supports exporting activities either. to use Codespaces. If not, what have others here done to accomplish these things? Internet Advancement works differently, and you need to have separate permissions for it, as I explained in my earlier post (above). From the first knot tied to final hours of service performed, Google group). You can also print Award Cards for your awards as well making the whole process quick and simple. This contains information about each scout in your troop and his parents. Email reminders to your members for upcoming activities. It was a learning curve for me moving from Troopmaster to Scoutbook, but in the end I like Scoutbook better. It may not be as onerous as expected. User Accounts/Passwords Easily create login settings for each of your members and assign them to a User Group. The Scouting app is available for download on You can first verify at scoutbook.scouting.org, then log into scoutbook.com and see what is there. We are also using Troopmaster for Advancement. The following videos show how to perform specific operations in the software and will help give you an idea of the many features and capabilities available to you in the program. If you do this, keep in mind is will mess up nights for . Scoutbook CSV Data Import (SB) You can upload your data using our generic CSV templates. I want to simplify things and move everything to Scoutbook. You can scout.py New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. What is the Log In as Den Leader For? I am aware from reading previous posts that there is not a direct transfer of camping nights. Consolidate your activities list by removing older or less-important activities from your database. What is Den Leader Experience? Edit activity, attendance, and other details on your unit's activities. You can upload your data using our generic CSV templates. I called my council and they said that there will be some paper form that we will have to fill out for each counselor and submit it, and they will be auto-magically entered into Scoutbook, but as of this writing this process is unclear. Thanks! Create custom permission slips for your upcoming activities. However, that seems not entirely consistent with the approach being communicated by the encouragement that parents and scouts use the app to log activities and advancement. Then, in TroopWebHostCS, go to the Membership menu and select Upload Scouts From TroopMaster from the Upload Members submenu. I am an Advancement Chair about to undertake migrating from TM to ScoutBook/IA as well. This data will need to be manually added to Scoutbook. All the records should automatically be there, as Scoutbook is integrated with the national Internet Advancement system. Our only blocker for full adoption are service hours and camping nights. Hi Michael, In addition, I personally find the IA2 interface far less intuitive than the Scoutbook one, although each has its own idiosyncracies. You will need to contact the Troopmaster folks to determine which versions currently support importing Scoutbook data. @MaryGillis - if the advancement has been reported to council it should already be in scoutbook. off the grid, this apps offline capability allows you to access I think it's also faster) if you import the data in the csv format Create an optional weekly newsletter to keep your members informed of upcoming events and other important information regarding your unit. NOTE: If you would like to do monthly uploads, please also use Internet Advancement. Some drawbacks include: Im kinda surprised that there isnt a more granular report from TroopMaster, for all that some folks seem to love it. Things like short vs. formal first names, misspellings, etc can affect the matching. Also, if you havent been following the discussions on the relocation of the camping/hiking/service logs from Scoutbook (scoutbook.com) to IA2 (scoutbook.scouting.org), its probably worth a look through. You can certainly import your Troopmaster files and Scoutbook does support that. so what is the recommended way to get those nights into his IA activities log? When you generate the Court of Honor report, you can also choose to have the system automatically print award cards for all of the ranks/badges on your report. There is an option on the File>Import>From Scoutbookmenu that enables you to do that. Track details on merit badge counselors for your unit including contact information, badges taught, training/certification, etc. Detailed tracking of fundraiser sales and payment collections. Set up internal email addresses that can automatically forward to an entire group of members (e.g., selected unit leaders, specific patrol, etc.). 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