Direct User-to-user (Kudos) badges

There is a new 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:

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.

There are a set of 14 icons available by default for use with in kudos. Spotlight administration 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).

Viewing Earned Kudos

You can see all kudos that have been awarded by selecting the new Kudos filter in the Activity Stream web part.

All awarded kudos

Earned Kudos Badges web part

You can also see the kudos that you or another one person has earned by viewing the Earned Kudos web part. It needs to be placed on the public profile page for you to see others' earned kudos.

Earned Kudos Badges

Enable Kudos Badges checkbox

The Earned Badges web part can be turned into an Earned Kudos web part by checking the Kudos Badges checkbox in the NewsGator section of the web part settings.

Deleting Earned Kudos

Kudos awarded to you

When viewing your earned kudos badges on your own profile, you will see a Delete option under each. Click to delete the kudos badge; the badge will be permanently gone 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 does not delete the badge. To delete the badge, you must do so from the Earned Kudos web part.

Kudos that you awarded to someone else

You can also delete any kudos you awarded by visiting the profile of the person you awarded it to, 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

Hiding your badges and kudos from others

You can hide any regular badge or kudos badge you have received, or opt to pre-emptively prevent anyone else from viewing any of the badges or kudos that you will earn (or have earned).

These options are described below in the section titled Options for Display and Hiding of Badges.