Badges

New in 09.02.00, badges are a way to reward forum users for their participation.

Once awarded, badges remain with the user forever. Badges can be manually removed by an administrator. Note however, that this is really only effective for a manually awarded badge (an automatically-awarded badge will just be re-awarded in the future).

Control Panel

Badges are managed in the Control Panel:

Badge Options

• Badge - name of the badge
• Description - will display as a popup tooltip over the badge; used to describe the badge and how it is awarded
• Sort Order - badges with higher numbers are display more prominently in the user's profile
• Metric - how a badge award is determined (see below)
• Threshold - combined with the metric to determine how badge is award (see below)
• Markup - what HTML markup to display and/or with Image
• Image - what badge image to display (images are stored in DNNCommunityForums/badges under portal root)
• Send user a notification when awarded - will send a DNN notification to the user when badge is awarded
• Don't send an older user a notification when backfilling awards - prevents sending badge award notifications to existing users when first awarding badges after an upgrade

Scheduled job

Badges that are based on metrics are awarded automatically using a scheduled job that runs (by default) daily.

Badge Images

Badge images are stored in the DNNCommunity/Badges folder in the Portal root:

Metrics

Badges are set up with a rule of a "metric" and a "threshold". Once the threshold is met for the given metric, the badge is awarded.

The following metrics are available:

• None - badge is to be manually awarded
• New Member - user created in past 30 days
• Topics Created
• Replies Created
• Likes Received
• Topics Read

Default Badges

To get started, new installations and upgrades of DNN Community Forums will be configured with these badges:

• New Member - awarded to a new user
• New Poster - awarded upon first topic posted
• Engaged Poster - awarded to a user who has posted 10 topics during a 90-day interval
• Avid Poster - awarded to a user posting 20 topics during a 30-day interval
• Helpful Replier - awarded to a user who replies 5 times during a 30-day interval
• Most Liked - awarded to a user whose posts are 'liked' 20 times during a 90 day interval
• Engaged Reader - awarded to a user who reads 10 topics during a 30-day interval
• Avid Reader - awarded to a user who reads 60 topics during a 90-day interval
• MVP - awarded manually by the administrator
• Lifesaver - awarded manually by the administrator
• Dedicated User - awarded manually by the administrator

Tokens / Templates

New tokens added with [BADGE:*] prefix : See user badge tokens