Enabling or Disabling Community Badging

By default, community administrators have the capability to define badges and badge rules for their communities.

If you do not want your community administrators to have this capability, and wish to allow only global badges to be awarded within your organization, you can opt for this using a global setting that is set on the Miscellaneous Settings page of the NewsGator Social Platform Management page:

Enable checkbox to allow community administrators to create badges and rules for spotlight recognition

If you uncheck this, the following happens:

• The Spotlight Administration link no longer be available on any community Admin tab.
• Any existing rule-based community badges stops accumulating points based on user activity.
• Any Community Leader Board and Available Community Badges web parts that have previously been deployed displays a message stating that community-level recognition features have been disabled and that the web part should be removed or hidden.

Spotlight Administration link visible on community Admin tab

Spotlight Administration link not available on community Admin tab

Any public community badges already awarded still displays on the user’s profile.