Grant a badge to individual users manually

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

In this guide we’ll be creating a new “Scholar” badge that we will grant to individual users manually. Let’s get started!

Enable Badge SQL

Badge SQL can no longer be edited by default

Starting from Discourse 1.6 badge sql can no longer be edited by admins unless explicitly enabled. This change was made for a couple of reasons Security: allowing admins to enter SQL directly allows them raw access to the database, generally we are opting that raw access to the database from the web UI is a feature you opt-in for. Even though the queries only return user_ids, an admin attacker can discover any information in the database using badge queries. If column A of table Y has the le…

Create a new custom badge

Create a new custom badge from the Admin > Badges page by clicking on “New” button.

Fill out badge details

In our example, I am naming the badge “Scholar” and setting the badge type to “Gold”.

Note that the badge image can either be a font awesome icon or an image URL. In this example, I chose the font awesome icon “fa-graduation-cap”.

Go to user admin page

When it’s time to grant a user the badge, navigate to their user admin page and click on “Edit Badges” button.

Select the badge

Select the badge you want to grant to the user. In our case the badge is “Scholar”. Now click on “Grant”.

Badge granted successfully!

If you visit the user’s profile page and select the “Badges” tab you will see the newly granted “Scholar” badge!

That’s it. Now go grant some badges to your users!

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Hey, @techAPJ. You might edit this post and add this note at the top:

Badge SQL can no longer be edited by default

Starting from Discourse 1.6 badge sql can no longer be edited by admins unless explicitly enabled. This change was made for a couple of reasons Security: allowing admins to enter SQL directly allows them raw access to the database, generally we are opting that raw access to the database from the web UI is a feature you opt-in for. Even though the queries only return user_ids, an admin attacker can discover any information in the database using badge queries. If column A of table Y has the le…

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

Good point … Done.

[D2Rhino (Mike Maddox)]

I’m trying to grant a badge and I get a pop up that says “sorry, an error as occurred”. Ideas? Thanks!

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Can you check for any errors in your browser console? We’re not going to be any help with a generic error like that without more details.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Browser console will not help for a server error, and is not the correct advice. Check /logs in your browser when logged in as admin.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Didn’t realize that error message was server (not client). Figured browser was a good first step .