Badges - How To

[Gandalf]

Firstly, you will need to click on the 'Mod' link as indicated below.


This will open up the Moderator Control Panel as indicated. Now you need to click the 'Give award to user' link as indicated below.


Now you need to find the award to give. In the example below we are going to give the 'Active dMr racers' award. To do this we simply click the 'Give award to user' link as indicated below.


We now have a form open that will enable us to give the award. At the top of the page it will show the selected award to ensure that the correct link was clicked. Fill out the User Name (Must be accurate) Or if known, the Userid (Useful for those difficult to spell User Names). One or the other is all that is required. In the example below there is my name in the User Name field.

There is also an 'Issue reason' field. Self explanitory here and what is entered here will show up in the PM that is sent to the user and on their personal awards tab in their profile.

Leave the checkboxes as they are and click Save. You have now awarded some lucky person with an award!

[Penfold]

Nice one Gandy.

Are we all happy to get this thing live then?

can we please have a 'go' date from OB/TL?

Thanks

PEN

[TeaLeaf]

Firstly, you've all done an excellent job, so my thanks to you all for the effort put into finding the right solution to allow us to implement what we wanted for the community.  Has the subscription system also checked out ok?

As far as the tags go, then yes I'm happy with it and let's go Live with it asap.  


TL.

[smilodon]

Forum admin badges (red) posted. Basically as I understand it they go to anyone with forum admin status.

No green forum badges yet. That still needs some discussion in another thread

[Penfold]

I'll start on the LAN ones tonight.

Do we make Delanvital a moderator so he can award the folding badges? (Or if not acceptable, we'll have to tell him to tell us who to award them to.) If yes, can someone do it. I'm not sure bit I think DuVeL is also mod of that section so he may need it too?

thanks

PEN

[smilodon]

Yep he is a moderator. So he should be able to see the link like the Gaming Section Heads. I'm sure Gandy added him as well

[Penfold]

One thing Smilo pointed out yesterday is that obviously Section Heads can award all the badges in theory and to please make sure they only award the badges for their own section ().

They are all logged so you'll be spotted should you start flogging badges on the side :boxing:

If a mistake is made, please tell Smilo and he'll reverse it.

Thanks

pp Smilodon

[Gandalf]

Firstly, you've all done an excellent job, so my thanks to you all for the effort put into finding the right solution to allow us to implement what we wanted for the community.  Has the subscription system also checked out ok?

As far as the tags go, then yes I'm happy with it and let's go Live with it asap.  


TL.

The subs thing I'm looking into. Will hopefully have an answer in a few days.

[Penfold]

Yep he is a moderator. So he should be able to see the link like the Gaming Section Heads. I'm sure Gandy added him as well

Nope - no in vb he isn't. Can you want to add him as a moderator ?

He'll also need a copy of the 'how to award' post above as he can't see this section.

Best coming from you

PEN

[OldBloke]

It's too early to go live IMHO.

There's nothing to say how the Section Head will determine who gets their badge or indeed when it may be removed. We need to make sure that the criteria has some common ground i.e. the amount of time elapsed before a badge is awarded. We need an awards section that clearly brings all this together. We need to pre-empt the raft of questions that this will generate and make sure that it's covered in the documentation (I'm not prepared to have another week of answering the same question over and over again). We need the subscription process ready.

And that's just off the top of my head. There will be others.

[smilodon]

Nope - no in vb he isn't. Can you want to add him as a moderator ?

He'll also need a copy of the 'how to award' post above as he can't see this section.

Best coming from you

PEN

I've had a squint and Yep he is moderator of 'Folding' as well as 'Laugh I nearly started' and 'Look what I found on the internet'

He's also able to assign icons in the same way the gaming section heads can. Bearing in mind Oldies post I'll hold off giving him access to the howto.

We need the ground rules Oldie has asked for in place first. I believe that would be down to whoever looks after Work Package 2 :norty:

Oldie, would it be wise to turn off the award feature till we're all ready to go?

[OldBloke]

Oldie, would it be wise to turn off the award feature till we're all ready to go?

I've had a very tiresome day at the hospital outpatients dept and I'm still catching up on the posts made late last night and today.

Who has access to the awards system then? If it's easy to turn off then please do. I can hear the screaming already ... "Where's my badge? He's got his. Where's mine?" :doh:

[Armitage]

i have had a look at the awards and i'm ok with it. I am also have a list of all the COD4 badges i am going to award.
 
 
it's a bit like blue peter this

[smilodon]

Those able to award badges

Oldbloke
Tealeaf
Gandalf
smilodon
Penfold
Blueball

all by virtue of their admin status

Armitage
Sheepy
Whitey
Doorman
Delanvital

all by virtue of their access to the award system (Gandy hack)

Turning on and off access is as easy as clicking on a radio button for each member.

Maybe if the Section Heads could just hold fire on awarding any badges till we have the last bits in place and an agreed format for awarding what to who etc. as per oldblokes comments? Cheers

[Anonymous]

This will open up the Moderator Control Panel as indicated. Now you need to click the 'Give award to user' link as indicated below.

When I log in to Mod Panel I don't get the "Give Award" option showing in left hand pane