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title: Assigning badges to users
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Site administrators can assign badges to users in the **Users** application.

1. Open the **Users** application and **Edit** () a user.
2. Switch to the **Settings** tab.
3. Select a **Badge**.
4. Click **Save**.

The system assigns the selected badge to the user. If you select a manual badge, the user keeps the badge even if they meet conditions for an automatic badge. However, if you select an automatic badge, the system assigns the appropriate automatic badge once the user performs an action changing the number of activity points.

## Configuring activity points for assigning automatic badges

Users can gain activity points for their activities on the site. Based on the number of gained activity points, automatic badges can be assigned to users. For this feature to be functional, you have to configure the following settings in **Settings -> Community**:

- **Enable user activity points** - enables the logging of activity points for users.
- **Activity points for blog post** - number of activity points that users receive for adding a blog post.
- **Activity points for blog comment post** - number of activity points that users receive for adding a blog post comment.
- **Activity points for forum post** - number of activity points that users receive for adding a forum post.
- **Activity points for message board post** - number of activity points that users receive for adding a message board post.