Direct User-to-user (Kudos) Badges
There is a web part that, when deployed to public user profile pages, will allow users to give kudos to other users in the form of a badge. Here is what it looks like on a user's profile page:
Kudos badge
Notice it gives the person's name. When you go to someone else's profile page and use this web part, you are giving them kudos. (Users are not permitted to give kudos to themselves, however.)
Your message appears in the activity stream for that person and her followers, alongside whatever icon you chose to use:
Kudos
There are a set of 14 icons available by default for use with in kudos. Spotlight administrations can make any changes they wish to this list via the global Spotlight Management page, by adding new badges and marking them as kudos badges, or by removing existing kudos badges.
A badge marked as a kudos badge may not be used for any other kinds of badge awarding, and vice-versa.
Kudos badges can only be defined at the global level (there are no community-level kudos badges).
Renaming Kudos badges
The term “Kudos” is not in use in many parts of the world, and so you might want to use a different word as the name for user-to-user badges.
To do so, follow the below steps:
- On the Spotlight Administration page click the Customize Spotlight UI link in the UI Customization section.
- On the Spotlight UI Administration page type in a new word to replace “kudos”.
- Click Save. Use the Customize Localizations link to provide the translations for your new word if you have users who speak different languages from each other.
Customize Spotlight UI link
Spotlight UI Administration
The word “kudos” is then replaced with the term you selected.
This does not change web part titles, so if you have a title visible like the example below, you’ll need to edit the web part settings to change it.
"Kudos" replaced with new word
Deleting earned Kudos
Deleting Kudos awarded to you
When viewing your earned kudos badges on your own profile, you can see a Delete option under each.
Click Delete to remove the kudos badge. The badge is permanently removed from view for all users, including yourself.
The activity stream event announcing the award of the kudos badge is also removed – but only if the event occurred after upgrading to version 4.0 (or higher) of Aurea Social.
Click Delete
As was previously possible, you can also delete the activity stream event that announces the award of the kudos badge, but doing so will not delete the badge. To delete the badge, you must do so from the Earned Kudos web part.
Deleting kudos that you awarded to someone else
You can also delete any kudos you awarded by visiting the profile of that person, and finding it in their Earned Kudos web part.
This is useful for correcting spelling errors. This also deletes the activity stream event announcing the award of the kudos badge, if the event occurred after upgrading to version 4.0 (or later) of Aurea Social.
Click Delete