Create a Community Badge

Overview

This article aims to provide a way to create badges when your users reach a certain amount of points from engaging with their community. Creating badges enable Community Managers to customize how they reward their users for performing certain actions.

Evoq Engage

Prerequisites

A community manager role or higher for the site: Community managers have access to community-related features and settings in Evoq Engage.

Solution

Login as a community role or higher.
Go to Persona Bar > Settings > Gamification.
Click/Tap Create New.
Provide information about the badge.
- Badge Tier: The category of the badge to indicate its desirability or the difficulty to obtain it.
- Badge Banner: The image that represents the banner. This image is displayed in a user's profile, if the user has earned the badge.
Choose one or more actions required to earn the badge.
1. Check one or more items under Available Actions, then click/tap the right-arrow icon to move them to the Selected Actions section.
2. Update the Count for each selected action to indicate how many times the user must perform that action for this badge.
3. (Optional) To deselect an action, check its box, then click/tap the left-arrow icon.
Enter the Number of Days within which the user must perform all selected actions to earn the badge.

Testing

To test that the badges you've created are working correctly:

Log in with a test user.
Perform the actions that you've defined for the badge.
You should receive a notification popup that you have received the badge.
You can also check that you've received the badge by clicking your User Profile > My Profile.