Community Contributions: Visibility & Customization

Badging and contribution recognition in your community can be customized to fit your branding and reflect your community’s recognition and awards plan.

Learn more about what the default badges, descriptions, and profile recognition look like here. 

This feature must be enabled by the Gradual team before the settings below will appear in your dashboard. Reach out to the Gradual team if you’d like this feature enabled. 


Visibility

From the dashboard, you can toggle on or off the visibility badges, the contributions listed on profiles, or the entire feature.


Visibility of the entire feature

1
Navigate to Settings → Customization → Community Contributions 
2
Toggle on or off the Community Contributors visibility in the upper right of that settings block
  • When ON: All contributions and any enabled badge(s) will appear on contributors' profiles
  • When OFF: No badges or contributions will appear on any profiles


Visibility of contributions only

If you'd like to show contributions and recognition of the events and content by contributors, but not badges:

1
Navigate to Settings → Customization → Community Contributions 
2
Toggle on Community Contributors visibility
3
Toggle off the visibility of all badges

Visibility of badges & contributions

If you'd like to show contributions and recognition of the events and content by contributors and badge(s):

1
Navigate to Settings → Customization → Community Contributions 
2
Toggle on Community Contributors visibility
3
Toggle on the visibility of any badges you'd like visbile on profiles


Badge Image

This is the graphic that appears as a small icon in the profile, and in the pop-up that appears when a user hovers over the badge. 

Customizing Graphic

Change the graphic to fit your branding in the dashboard by navigating to Settings → Customization → Community Contributions → Edit

The graphic is recommended as a PNG, 360x360 px and up to 5 MB

Revert Back to Default

If you find that you’d like to revert a badge back to the default graphic, you will navigate to the badge, to the Edit page, and ‘Revert to Default’ in the badge image. 



Badge Name

This is what titles the Badge on the contributor’s profile and appears in the pop-up when a user hovers over the badge. Change the name to fit your community's verbiage in the dashboard by navigating to Settings → Customization → Community Contributions → Edit

This name can be no more than 15 characters


Badge Description

This description appears in a pop-up when a user hovers over the badge and describes what the badge is awarding. Change the name to fit your community's verbiage in the dashboard by navigating to Settings → Customization → Community Contributions → Edit

This description can be no more than 75 characters

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