# Problem testing Badge Query from Data Explorer

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-testing-badge-query-from-data-explorer/118568
**Category:** Data & reporting
**Tags:** sql-triggered-badge
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-testing-badge-query-from-data-explorer/118568 "2019-05-24T00:14:35Z")
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#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-testing-badge-query-from-data-explorer/118568/4 "2019-05-24T00:46:42Z")

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> [@Mark\_Schmucker](#):
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> Can you tell me what the clause does (assuming it gets the parameters passed in), so I can decide whether to keep it?

If your badge is triggered by a user acting on a post, then you need to include this condition. The best description I’ve seen of how the `:backfill` and `:user_ids` parameters are used in badge queries is in the ‘Triggered badges have 2 extra constraints’ section of [Creating triggered custom badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/triggered-custom-badge-queries/19336).

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