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Gursimrat
Leader
12 years ago

Custom Badges for community

Hello, We have a requirement wherein we want to setup a custom badge widget, which will accumulate the badges based on the type of activities users perform. This will work just like how Lithium'd bad...
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Gursimrat
Leader
12 years ago
Thanks Stephen.

Yes, I am on similar thinking grounds as you have mentioned, using the users activities details mashed up with the roles, ranks and club them to achieve final badges. Only limitation over here is that we can not make it configurable from admin and would require to update the code for any changes in criteria of earning a badge, other than that, do you see any challenges here?
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Fellsteruk
Boss
12 years ago
Yeah it would be messy, the only thing that could be managed via admin is the adding and removing of the badges "roles"

I dont see any challenges "as such" but as you start your demand within the community for more badges will grow "this is a good thing" but this method isn't the most scalable as you could end up with 100's of roles :(
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