How do you assign a badge automatically as soon as someone is added to a group?

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I am planning on making around 20 badges for 20 different groups.

I see the Badge bulk add but not sure how to get it to trigger.

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The automation plugin can add users to a group when a badge is assigned (read more). But that’s the opposite of what you are asking for. I think you would have to create a custom badge query

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Do you know if its possible to make post made by X Group member readable by others but they can’t reply?

I am making 1 large forum with many groups, as I plan to have a filtering system by Group name.

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I don’t see a Query SQL option

allow arbitrary badge SQL or anything like this.

*Edit:

Enable “enable badge sql” via SSH: /var/discourse/launcher enter app then rails c then SiteSetting.enable_badge_sql = true. Query tab appears in Admin > Badges > New/Edit. (Risks: security/performance.)

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You can create a category where users of group X are allowed to create topics, but users not in that group are only allowed to read (read more)

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The problem with creating categories is I need 18 categories to cover all my groups.

I want everyone talking inside of 1 large category and not multiple categories.

I want topic post to have a security based on Group which denotes your rank on the forums.

I guess adding group tags to a post will help me with filtering the post, but not keeping other people from replying to specific post made by the Group member if you’re not in the group

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Posting permissions in Discourse are controlled by the category and are group based. So, for different permissions, you need different categories.
What is the advantage of one big category? In topic lists like /latest, the category isn’t that relevant and it’s almost like talking in one category. You could also use a subcategory per group within one main category.

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The category locations aren’t needed since its all the same post/info.

I think just adding Group tags will work for my needs, so people can filter by the Group/ranks.

Its a skill based hierarchy, so I want higher skilled people to find other higher skill post information easily.

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You can also filter for topics created by members of a group.

https://meta.discourse.org/g/team/activity/topics or https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=created-by%3Ateam.

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