Badge Granting Difficulties

[ondrej]

Hello @Cricket

Badge granting from the user admin menu is only available for badges the admins have created. See the guide below on how you can create badges on your community.

Grant a badge to individual users manually

This is a guide for manually granting a custom badge to individual users on Discourse. Required user level: Administrator In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and manually grant a custom badge to individual users. A new “Scholar” badge will be created as an example. This guide is only applicable for custom badges. To manually grant one of Discourse’s built in badges, you will need to follow: Bulk Award a badge to a set of users Create a …

However, like in your case, if you want to grant badges such as first flag to a user you’ll have to follow the guide below on bulk badge granting.

Bulk Award a badge to a set of users

Badges are an excellent way to acknowledge someone who is doing a good job. Discourse now allows awarding a badge to a set of users. If you go to the badges section in the admin panel, you’ll notice that a new button called “Bulk Award” is now available next to the “new” button: [Screen Shot 2020-01-15 at 11.34.31] After clicking it, you’ll be prompted to select a badge and get started: [Screen Shot 2020-01-15 at 11.34.43] Select the badge you want to award and upload a CSV file containin…

Hope this helps!