Feature Requests for Badges/Achievements/Ranks

[Douglas Glover]

I have a small list of requests specific to this feature. Can you let me know if any of this is on the roadmap, or in general will/may be implemented, or if there exists a solution to any of them?

1. Ability to award Badges to an individual without needing to tie it to a specific post, and/or the ability to award multiple Badges at once.
   1. My community is a group of video game collectors. As such we've based a bunch of manually-awarded badges around stuff like "Has collected X games for System Y". We've implemented a "Badge request" thread, wherein users make a post and provide proof, e.g. a photo, so we know who to award what Badges. In the current system we need to go get random posts from each user whenever they request more than one Badge, and/or request that they do 1 post per request. This is quite cumbersome as-is.
2. Descriptions per Badge.
   1. Right now all we can do is a title and icon. It'd be great if we could also have a description on each Badge so people know why they were granted the Badge (ignoring the "message" option - sometimes people will see a Badge on a user profile and be curious of how to earn it themselves. I see that there's a roundabout what to do this with the message, but that's a lot of clicks which aren't necessarily obvious to a user.
3. Ability to award Badges to oneself.
   1. Staff members for instance could save me personally a lot of time by handing out their own badges to themselves. Similarly, I as an admin should be able to add the "Has a gaming tattoo" to myself, without having to ask another member of staff to do it for me.
4. Ability to see a number of earned Badges on posts (if perhaps even only on desktop). 
   1. The old trophy system which I had to purchase to use had this, and it's a missed feature. Right now people have to dig into a user profile who happens to have badges to see that they exist at all. They're intended to be a bit of bling on a user but I see no way to actually feature that they have them to show off.
   2. If there's a PHP template or block I can use to make this happen myself I'd love to know.
5. Ability to list all Badges on a page via a template or block or similar.
   1. I have a page where I did this quasi-manually by exporting the XML list, translating to JSON, then translating that to static HTML: User Ranks & Badges - Video Game Sage
   2. Perhaps there's some PHP code which lists them all. Even if I could literally lift this off the Admin CP as it exists there it would be sufficient. Any way to automate a public facing list of all Badges (and User Ranks!) that can be earned would be a huge help. Right now the thought of adding new ones is a cumbersome idea.
6. Sort/filter the dropdown when awarding Badges.
   1. I have almost 400 badges in the system. They sort according to the order they were entered into the AdminCP, which means that categorizing, sorting, etc. them is currently impossible and as-is any new ones added will be at the bottom of the list rather than sitting with their peers.
   2. The ability to categorize/place in folders within the system could help a lot.

Edited December 19, 2023 by Douglas Glover

[Marc]

We do not show roadmaps at the present time. Any information related to changes on the product will be shown in blogs, or indeed in release notes. However I do have comments on some of those

11 hours ago, Douglas Glover said:

Ability to award Badges to an individual without needing to tie it to a specific post, and/or the ability to award multiple Badges at once.

1. My community is a group of video game collectors. As such we've based a bunch of manually-awarded badges around stuff like "Has collected X games for System Y". We've implemented a "Badge request" thread, wherein users make a post and provide proof, e.g. a photo, so we know who to award what Badges. In the current system we need to go get random posts from each user whenever they request more than one Badge, and/or request that they do 1 post per request. This is quite cumbersome as-is.

 

This is already possible. You can manually add badges from the admin CP. Go to any member, and on the badges section, click on manage

11 hours ago, Douglas Glover said:

Ability to award Badges to oneself.

1. Staff members for instance could save me personally a lot of time by handing out their own badges to themselves. Similarly, I as an admin should be able to add the "Has a gaming tattoo" to myself, without having to ask another member of staff to do it for me.

 

Other than the method above for admin, this is not Something in which is likely ever to be added, as it simply goes against the intention of the system

11 hours ago, Douglas Glover said:

Ability to see a number of earned Badges on posts (if perhaps even only on desktop). 

1. The old trophy system which I had to purchase to use had this, and it's a missed feature. Right now people have to dig into a user profile who happens to have badges to see that they exist at all. They're intended to be a bit of bling on a user but I see no way to actually feature that they have them to show off.
2. If there's a PHP template or block I can use to make this happen myself I'd love to know.

 

This is already available. If you go to any users profile, you will see badges at the top in the "Your achievements" section. You can also click into that which will give you a full list and count