Mark a Success Story as Complete

Review all required fields and mark a success story as complete in PEARS.

After completing all required sections of a success story, you can mark the record as complete. Marking a success story as complete signals that the record is finished and ready for review.

You will not be able to mark the success story as complete until all of the following requirements are met.

Completion Requirements

• Story Info — The story title, reporting periods, program areas, unit, and other general information must be complete.

• Story Narrative — For SNAP-Ed organizations, the background field is required. For non-SNAP-Ed organizations, the story narrative body is required.

• Collaborators — At least one collaborator must be added.

• Partners — Partners section is complete (if the partnerships feature is enabled).

• Custom Data — All required custom data fields, if configured for your organization, must be completed.

• SNAP-Ed Data — If your organization uses SNAP-Ed, the socioecological frameworks, approaches, and priority indicators fields must be completed.

1

Review the success story record

Open the success story and verify that all required sections listed above are complete. Address any missing information before proceeding.

2

Resolve any incomplete sections

Use the Program Progress panel on the right side of the detail page to identify which sections still need attention. Click on any incomplete section to navigate directly to it and fill in the missing fields.

3

Mark as complete

Click the Mark as Complete button. If all requirements are met, the success story status will update to Complete.

If any requirements are not met, PEARS will display a message indicating which fields still need attention.

Mark as Incomplete

If you need to make changes to a completed success story, you can mark it as incomplete to re-enable editing. Navigate to the success story detail page and click the Mark as Incomplete button. The completed badge is removed and all sections are editable again.