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ann_eav
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5 years ago

Custom Badges - badge criteria for date events

Hi everyone! We are creating some new custom badges to improve our gamification and we have found out with an issue. I hope that someone can help us to find a workaround or to report it as a bug. W...
  • Drew_C's avatar
    Drew_C
    5 years ago

    Hi ann_eav,

    Badge rules are pretty limited, despite the seemingly large list of options.

    We did a badge for Star Wars day (May the Fourth) and used this date formula:
    signin_date >= '2020-05-04T00:00:00' AND signin_date < '2020-05-04T23:59:59'

    If we use the same badge again next year, I'll disable global notifications for a minute and grant the badge to users with a particular role- in this case the role will be for those who got the badge in 2020. Notifications will be disabled briefly so there's no confusion on the "new" award. A new badge for the 2021 date will be created and we'll repeat.

    Until there's a better solution, I hope this helps.

    -Drew

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Drew_C
Boss

Hi ann_eav,

Badge rules are pretty limited, despite the seemingly large list of options.

We did a badge for Star Wars day (May the Fourth) and used this date formula:
signin_date >= '2020-05-04T00:00:00' AND signin_date < '2020-05-04T23:59:59'

If we use the same badge again next year, I'll disable global notifications for a minute and grant the badge to users with a particular role- in this case the role will be for those who got the badge in 2020. Notifications will be disabled briefly so there's no confusion on the "new" award. A new badge for the 2021 date will be created and we'll repeat.

Until there's a better solution, I hope this helps.

-Drew

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ann_eav
Ace
5 years ago

Hi Drew_C 

I think that this solution is very clever! However, I see that maybe you could win the badge two times if you have sign-in in 2021, maybe the new badge created should have a mix of having the role OR sign-in in the date? 

I know that this is possible but I have never tried it before. If this works, every year a little maintenance would have to be done:

- Extract the users that have the badge.

- add them all to the role. Disable the notifications.

- Delete the badge, and create a new one that checks for the role or the sign-in in the new year.

- Repeat every year.

And that way the users would be going to the role eventually and the badge would not be repeated.

 

However, I really hope that an easier workaround could be found...

 

Thanks again for the response. Let's see if we can find something more efficient and if not I will mark your answer as the solution!