Points for Manual Badges

@anirbandutta I like this idea but I’m curious: why would you limit this to manual badges? 

I’d want this for all badges. Just set a number of points associated to a badge, and whenever it is rewarded to a member, they also earns that number of points.

@SmartlyGreg Thank you, absolutely; at least there should be a capability to on the UI for all badges.

Wondering if others have created other ways of doing this currently, could you share your process, are you using a zap?

@DannyPancratz should be our man here.

Thanks @anirbandutta 

@DannyPancratz is the Insided Superman and has helped me with a few things.  I was able to set up a Zap integration with our LMS (Thinkific) so every time a course is completed they get a badge and points in community. I can share my Zap steps if anyone needs as I had a few hiccups.

For manual badges, this isn’t a trigger in the API. Support just got back to me - I will need to use a Zap with a webhook. Here are the Zap steps:

1. Webhook - to listen to the badge endpoint
2. Filter for specific badges via ID or name, otherwise whenever a badge happens (auto or manual) they'll get points from number 3.
3. inSided - Assign points API

Well… we are so not surprised he has :)

And Thank You for documenting the logic Kelly!

Well done, @KellyBebenek !

If others are looking to do something similar, you subscribe to this webhook event for badge earned: https://api2-us-west-2.insided.com/docs/#yipuserbadgeearned

OR what I do for my use case is that I often assign the badge and the points via a Google Sheet, rather than in Control. But that was before I knew about that webhook event. But if you’re doing a lot of these, and have a list of emails, it can be easier to trigger via a google sheet, rather than looking each user up in control. 

Here are how most of my Manual Badge + Points work with Zapier

1. Trigger on update/new row to Google sheet
2. API Action - Looks up user to get user Id (n/a if you already know the user ID
3. Assign Badge
4. Assign Points
5. Update the Google sheet with API responses (“ok” to show it was successful)

Any update on this?

It could really be as simple as in the manual badge there is a field for points to award and each time we award a badge points are alloted.


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