# Badges / record of real life meeting attendance **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [2016年一月25日 13:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-record-of-real-life-meeting-attendance/38444 "2016-01-25T13:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ky\_metro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ky_metro/32/42807_2.png) [@ky\_metro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ky_metro)\ **Post date:** [2016年一月25日 17:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-record-of-real-life-meeting-attendance/38444/2 "2016-01-25T17:09:44Z")
Why not invite them directly to your Discourse, including a special group membership in the invitation? [https://meta.discourse.org/my/invited/](https://meta.discourse.org/my/invited/) To make sure they attended, collect the email addresses as they come in the door. Once they’re in a group, assign a badge to all members of the group, like this: > [@Grant a badge for all members of a group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-badge-for-all-members-of-a-group/18147): > > I just created a badge for all the awesome [plugin authors](https://meta.discourse.org/badges). Creating a badge targeting a group is quite easy, just type this into the SQL box: select user\_id, created\_at granted\_at, NULL post\_id from group\_users where group\_id = ( select g.id from groups g where g.name = 'GROUP\_NAME\_IN\_LOWER\_HERE' ) I will add a trigger for this at some point so granting is faster, in the mean time just go to /sidekiq/scheduler and kick off the badge job to rush it. See [Triggered custom badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/triggered-custom-badge-queries/19336) for mo… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-record-of-real-life-meeting-attendance/38444)._