Grant User Permissions by Reputation

Overview

If you are using AnswerHub’s Gamification features, then you will also most likely have the Reputation option enabled. In this article, you will find a quick overview of how reputation can lead to different permissions settings.

Information

Reputation is a measure used to gauge how active, or knowledgeable a user is. Reputation is earned by answering questions, having content up-voted, and many other ways. The amount of reputation earned for various community interactions can be altered in the AnswerHub Administrator Dashboard. By using the By reputation option in the Advanced editor, you can set permissions to only be granted to users once they reach a certain level of reputation.

The recommended way to use permissions on the AnswerHub platform is by granting permissions to create a group-based role that you can then assign users to. For instance, you may have a user who needs to have all of the same permissions as others in their group, except for in a particular space, where they can earn additional permissions such as Moderator permissions.

Bear in mind that you must be a member of the default Super Users group or have the Edit Permissions permission granted in order to grant and revoke permissions.

To grant user permissions by reputation, follow these steps:

From anywhere in the AnswerHub User Interface (UI), click the Avatar drop-down menu and select Administration.

The Administrator Dashboard is displayed with the Dashboard tab pre-selected.
From the Manage menu, click Manage Users.

The Manage Users pane is displayed.
From the table, locate the user you want to grant permissions to by reputation, click the corresponding Gear icon, and select Permissions from the drop-down menu.

The Permissions–[Selected User] pane is displayed.
To grant either site-level or space-level permissions, click the Gear icon in the corresponding column and select Advanced from the drop-down menu.

If you need to set sub-space permissions, click on the name of the parent space. That space will replace the site column and any nested spaces (sub-spaces) will display in the green columns. The Advanced editor window is displayed.
Click the Standard roles drop-down menu and select By Reputation.

A box is displayed in the reputation column.
Enter the number of reputation points that a user must have in order to be assigned this permission.

For example, If you enter 10 in this box, a user must have a reputation that meets or exceeds 10 in order to be assigned this permission automatically.

When the border of the drop-down permission box is a different color than the fill color, it means that permission was inherited from elsewhere but is being overridden for the selected site, space, or sub-space. Remember that whichever text is displayed in the box, Revoked or Granted, is the current state of the overridden permission in the selected space.

For example, If the border is green and the fill color is red, the permission has been granted at a higher level in the AnswerHub Hierarchy but is revoked at the current level.
Click the OK button.

The modified permissions are displayed in the column you selected in step 3.