[Gather] Adding agent badge in Communities

Got it working for both

I tested someone's name "asdf"

same css

I have a question similar to @Marcel's a few months ago: We set up SSO for our help center, so anyone with a log-in to our service can participate in the community. I've set up badges for our agents, but I'd like to add a badge or image for any of our employees that participate in the forum.

I've created an organization that includes anyone with our company's email address—Can I set the organization up as a target (like this example does with "agents") to create a specific badge?

Would it be something like:

{{#is post.author.organization 'Grow Employees'}}...

I tried this, but "organization" wasn't something I could reference this way. Is there a way to do this?

Tricky one indeed. We also use SSO in our organization and what I ended up doing was this:

script.js

 // Adds custom badges for individual community forum users
  var supportEngineer = ["Support Engineer Name 1", "Support Engineer Name 2"];
  var developer = ["Developer Name 1", "Developer Name 2"];
	$('.add-badge').each(function(index) {
	if ($.inArray($.trim($(this).text()), supportEngineer) > -1) {
	$(this).addClass('supportEngineer');
	}
	else if ($.inArray($.trim($(this).text()), developer) > -1) {
	$(this).addClass('developer');
	}
	});
	if ($.inArray($.trim($('.post-author').text()), supportEngineer) > -1 ) {
	$('.post-author').addClass('supportEngineer');
	}
	else if ($.inArray($.trim($('.post-author').text()), developer) > -1 ) {
	$('.post-author').addClass('developer');
	}
});

style.css

/* Add custom badges to individual users */
.add-badge {
/* Empty class for badges; for reference only */
}

.moderator:after {
content: "Moderator";
background-color: #EB553C;
border-radius: 3px;
color: white;
margin-left: 8px;
padding: 2px 5px;
font-size: 10px;
}

.supportEngineer:after {
content: "Support Engineer";
background-color: #EB553C;
border-radius: 3px;
color: white;
margin-left: 8px;
padding: 2px 5px;
font-size: 10px;
}

.developer:after {
content: "Developer";
background-color: #EB553C;
border-radius: 3px;
color: white;
margin-left: 8px;
padding: 2px 5px;
font-size: 10px;
}

Works well so far and I use 2 additional roles in our live environment. The only downside so far is, that you have to manually add every employee, who does not have an agent role in Zendesk, although they are part of our organization (while moderators are getting flagged with the badge automatically due to their role).

But it looks like you simply cannot reference an organization in the script.js, at least I did not find a reference in Zendesk's Objects for Help Center templates.

Would absolutely love, if someone here found a way to reference organizations here, so we can automatically assign them badges.

Best,
Marcel

Thanks Marcel! I was also hoping to skip that process of adding each person in JS, but I can do this for now. I appreciate you sharing your example!

Hey Marcel,

Unfortunately, the user object in the Guide only doesn't return the default org of the user in the response That could be a good feature request though that would solve this use case, and i'm sure many others!

Not sure if there's a safe way to do this with JS, since you'd need to make an API call to Zendesk if you wanted to get organization data.

Since JS is client-side and there's limited control over the environment of Guide, your credentials would be visible to anyone who knows how to look at the source JS files in browser. This is a Bad Thing™and I wouldn't advise it. 

Hi Dan,

Not sure if there's a safe way to do this with JS, since you'd need to make an API call to Zendesk if you wanted to get organization data.

Since JS is client-side and there's limited control over the environment of Guide, your credentials would be visible to anyone who knows how to look at the source JS files in browser. This is a Bad Thing™and I wouldn't advise it. 

Thank you for the detailed background info, fair enough.

Best,
Marcel

So I added @Marcel's JS and CSS code to specify specific users that should have a badge and it works great (thanks again!) when they create a new post, but I noticed that when they comment on a post the badge doesn't show up. I've tried adding some JS to catch the ".comment-author" class, but it doesn't do anything (see code below).

I've also removed the code that refers to ".post-author" or switched the order and the badge still shows up next to their name as the post author, but still not the ".comment-author"

// Adds custom badges for individual community forum users
var productTeam = ["Name1", "Name2", "Name3"];
var csTeam = ["Name4", "Name5", "Name6"];
$('.add-badge').each(function(index) {
if ($.inArray($.trim($(this).text()), productTeam) > -1) {
$(this).addClass('productTeam');
}
else if ($.inArray($.trim($(this).text()), csTeam) > -1) {
$(this).addClass('csTeam');
}
});
if ($.inArray($.trim($('.post-author').text()), productTeam) > -1 ) {
$('.post-author').addClass('productTeam');
}
else if ($.inArray($.trim($('.post-author').text()), csTeam) > -1 ) {
$('.post-author').addClass('csTeam');
}
if ($.inArray($.trim($('.comment-author').text()), productTeam) > -1 ) {
$('.comment-author').addClass('productTeam');
}
else if ($.inArray($.trim($('.comment-author').text()), csTeam) > -1 ) {
$('.comment-author').addClass('csTeam');
}

});

Does this only work on agents, or is it possible to assign badges to end users? 

Melody - 

You can make this work for end users as well, you would just need to determine how you are entering their information (name, user ID, etc.) and pass that detail through. We have a "super user" badge and a "thought leader" badge that we use for identified end users, and it works well for incentivizing them, because certain people want to be seen as the "go-to" brains for some topics.

Hi Jeremy, Thanks for your quick response. I am pretty new to adding code, but have been able to do a few things. When I added the following code, the "Submit" button for adding comments was removed from the community post pages: 

Script.js

// Adds custom badges for individual community forum users

  var supportEngineer = ["Nicole Willson"];

              $('.add-badge').each(function(index) {

              if ($.inArray($.trim($(this).text()), supportEngineer) > -1) {

              $(this).addClass('supportEngineer');

              }

              });

              if ($.inArray($.trim($('.post-author').text()), supportEngineer) > -1 ) {

              $('.post-author').addClass('supportEngineer');

              }

});

Style.css

/* Add custom badges to individual users */

.add-badge {

/* Empty class for badges; for reference only */

}

.moderator:after {

content: "Moderator";

background-color: #EB553C;

border-radius: 3px;

color: white;

margin-left: 8px;

padding: 2px 5px;

font-size: 10px;

}

.supportEngineer:after {

content: "Support Engineer";

background-color: #EB553C;

border-radius: 3px;

color: white;

margin-left: 8px;

padding: 2px 5px;

font-size: 10px;

}

Hi Melody, no worries at all, I was the same when I started my Zendesk journey, and still feel that way when looking to do cool customizations to our HC. After doing one more review of this code and how we are using badges on our end through customization, this topic works, but feels a little limited. We us a slightly modified JS snippet that works better, minus the alignment that we haven't figured out(yet). 

Below is the script and CSS that we use, slightly modified from what you are using, and it works well.

//These two arrays hold the names of our moderators and support managers
var moderators = ["Jeremy Robinson", "jonny"];
var teammembers = ["Harriett", "Andrea"];
var thoughtleader = ["Katie"];
var superusers = ["Patrick", "Philip"]

//First we find every element with the .comment-author class and run the following function for all elements
$('.comment-author').each(function(index) {

//If the name is found in our teammembers array
if ($.inArray($(this).find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), teammembers) > -1) {
//...we add the teammember class to the element
$(this).addClass('teammembers');
} //If the name is found in our moderators array...
else if ($.inArray($(this).find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), moderators) > -1) {
//...we add the moderator class to the element
$(this).addClass('moderator');
} else if ($.inArray($(this).find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), thoughtleader) > -1) {
//...we add the moderator class to the element
$(this).addClass('thoughtleader');
} else if ($.inArray($(this).find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), superusers) > -1) {
//...we add the moderator class to the element
$(this).addClass('superusers');
}
});

//Next we will check the author of the post
if ($.inArray($('.post-author').find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), moderators) > -1) {
$('.post-author').addClass('moderator');
} else if ($.inArray($('.post-author').find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), teammembers) > -1) {
$('.post-author').addClass('teammembers');
} else if ($.inArray($('.post-author').find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), thoughtleader) > -1) {
$('.post-author').addClass('thoughtleader');
} else if ($.inArray($('.post-author').find(':nth-child(2)').find(':nth-child(1)').attr("title"), superusers) > -1) {
$('.post-author').addClass('superusers');
}

})

The CSS for this looks like:

/* Badges for Help Center Forums/Community */

.moderator:after, .teammembers:after, .superusers:after, .thoughtleader:after {
content: "Community Admin";
background-color: #DECDFF;
border-radius: 5px;
color: black;
margin-left: 8px;
padding: 2px 5px;
font-size: 12px;
}

.teammembers:after {
content: "Team Member";
}

.superusers:after {
content: "Super User";
}

.thoughtleader:after {
content: "Thought Leader";
}

Here's what it looks like when implemented 

I tried that code too and the submit button disappears. Any ideas?

Without looking at your code directly, it would be hard to pinpoint what's causing that other than something not being closed properly...

Looking back, you mentioned you're editing the community post page code... I apologize, I should have prefaced that the JS I provided only needs to go into the script.js file, and the CSS in the style.css file in your Zendesk theme to work correctly. You will not need to add any code to the community_post_page.hbs file for this to work, as the script runs and does all the heavy lifting automagically for you.  

I could have explained that I bit better. I was referring to the comment submit button disappearing from community page. The only code I added was to script.js and style.css like you described. 

Using the instructions in this article, I was able to get the Submit button to appear, however the badges are not showing. 

In your script.js file, can you make sure this script is configured after the Document Ready function?

$(document).ready(function() {

//all the script code provided in previous response

Jeremy - 

It worked! Thank you so much! Very helpful!

Melody - 

Glad to hear you got it working! :)

In my dealings and growth through Zendesk since really diving into it 6 months ago, some of the things that would be ideal and easier if an OOTB solution were available can be real finicky when you have to rely on coding it yourself or code samples from others while ensuring it all plays nicely with each other. 

@... - Great tip & thanks for the code!

Did you ever get the alignment issue fixed so that the badge shows right next to the user's name rather than to the right of the screen ?

@... I did not get the alignment as desired, but part of that is due to business decisions. We decided what we were after, our audience that would be in the Community, and our 1 & 3 year visions didn't have a large reliance on badging, so we left it as is and off to the right.

Depending on your branding and colors, it doesn't look terrible, I was just used to having the badge right next to the individual's name and now that we have gone some time with it opposite sides of the user image/name, it doesn't feel out of place and no one has come to us with feedback that they think it looks bad/different/"off".

@... Hello again!

We would also like to have this type of badge to show up on the author of any help articles in the same way Zendesk does. Any ideas? 

Hello @...,

Right now, our Gather Badging feature is currently in EAP, which is available for all Gather customers. You can sign up for this now and test out its functionality for yourself. But be aware that when the EAP finishes, and we hopefully make badges generally available, badges will only be available to Gather Professional customers. There may be a gap, though, from the end of our EAP to feature launch. I've shared an article that goes into our badging EAP in more depth for your reference. 

Announcing the Zendesk Gather Badges EAP

Best regards. 

Thank you @..., I wasn't sure if the badges also showed up on help articles, or if it was exclusive to the community. 

Thank you, we will consider this as we are on the legacy plan.