Badges Console badges-console
About Badges about-badges
The Communities Badges console provides the ability to add custom badges which can be displayed for a member when earned (awarded) or when they take on a specific role in the community (assigned).
Badge Visibility badge-visibility
Currently, badges a community member earns or is assigned will appear along with their name and avatar in the following locations:
- Profiles
- Forums
- QnA
- Leaderboards
- Ideation
In the author environment, to reach the Badges console
- From global navigation: Tools > Communities > Badges
This console displays the badges currently available and from which new badges can be added.
Create Badge create-badge
A badge is created by uploading a suitably small image (72dpi with a height ranging from 26-32 pixels) and providing a name. The badge image is stored in the repository at /etc/community/badging/images and is automatically replicated to the publish environment.
If the publish environment is a farm of publishers, it is necessary to configure user sync.
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Upload Image
(Required) A badge image with a recommended size of 32 x 32 pixels at 72dpi in either the JPEG or PNG format.
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Name
(Required) The badge name. It is the default
Display Nameas well as the repository node name. If theNameis not a valid repository node name, it will be modified. -
Display Name
(Optional) The name to display for the badge in the UI. Default is the unaltered text entered for the
Name. -
Description
(Optional) A description for the badge.
Additional Information additional-information
For details on setting up scoring and badging rules, see Scoring and Badges.
For managing badges for members, see Members Console.