Training Records - by IdeaScale

peter.johnson 11 months ago

This is great! I am in a similar situation, and when my unit leaders want to know what they have as training, I have to make each person's training record from scratch. I am going to see if I can merge the two spreadsheets together, and use this method instead!

jturman 5 months ago

This is a duplicate of my idea from 5 months ago you can see at http://ideas.scouting.org/akira/dtd/9465-2119. I even provided a workaround solution until National can fix ScoutNET 2000.

jotoro 5 months ago

It is a constant source of frustration that we don't have the ability to produce training reports with the needed contact information. It seems that our cries for help over the last NINE years go without notice. For the last several years we have had promises that something will be done to improve our training records, but no results. When volunteers ask us why we can't produce what they need we have been LOYAL to the cause, and explain away the problems. It's time for our IT folks to be TRUSTWORTHY and keep their promise to fix this problem.

Fran Callahan 5 months ago

Again, a translation of the codes so that new people in units do not have to learn/refer to a code sheet.

jpadgett 4 months ago

I have to produce a decoder wheel so my volunteers can make sense of the report.

Just write what it is on everything. NO MORE CODES!

jturman 4 months ago

Please stop posting duplicate ideas. I already posted this idea with a work around. http://ideas.scouting.org/akira/dtd/9465-2119

Judy Sizemore 3 days ago

'I recently had 600 people needing various trainings in my district and training in two weeks. In order to email them their individual list of trainings needed I would have had to look up each of them in ScoutNET and write an email one at a time.

Luckily, I'm a little smarter than that. I found software on the Internet for $30 that merges the Training spreadsheet with columns from the membership roster spreadsheet (I needed email address) by matching the BSA ID# from both. This gave me a training spreadsheet with email address. By splitting the courses column into 3 columns and doing lots of search and replace I was able make a human-readable spreadsheet which I then did mail merge and sent each individual the list of trainings they needed by email with the click of a button.

I've created a web application that merges the two spreadsheets for free and does all the search and replacing at http://ironhorsebsa.org/tools/training . Can't National improve ScoutNET to make it more usable with email by at least including the email address?

See my Facebook post in the BSA Professionals group at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=7506061819&topic=7102 for more details' authored by jturman was merged with this idea.

Judy Sizemore 3 days ago

'Training Completed Reports and Training Not Completed Reports currently provide the unit, position, name, address and telephone number of the volunteers. If the email addresses were provided on these reports, the District Training Chairs could easily sort the reports for specific training that is needed for each individual needing training and then send them emails regarding any upcoming scheduled trainings.' authored by Lynette Campbell was merged with this idea.

Judy Sizemore 3 days ago

'I recently had 600 people needing various trainings in my district and training in two weeks. In order to email them their individual list of trainings needed I would have had to look up each of them in ScoutNET and write an email one at a time.

Luckily, I'm a little smarter than that. I found software on the Internet for $30 that merges the Training spreadsheet with columns from the membership roster spreadsheet (I needed email address) by matching the BSA ID# from both. This gave me a training spreadsheet with email address. By splitting the courses column into 3 columns and doing lots of search and replace I was able make a human-readable spreadsheet which I then did mail merge and sent each individual the list of trainings they needed by email with the click of a button.

I've created a web application that merges the two spreadsheets for free and does all the search and replacing at http://ironhorsebsa.org/tools/training . Can't National improve ScoutNET to make it more usable with email by at least including the email address?

See my Facebook post in the BSA Professionals group at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=7506061819&topic=7102 for more details' authored by jturman was merged with this idea.

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