Badge not awarding on Learndash Lesson Completion

If you know you want to award the achievement at that time, you could use the following function (with default parameters included)

badgeos_award_achievement_to_user( $achievement_id = 0, $user_id = 0, $this_trigger = '', $site_id = 0, $args = array() )

* @param  integer $achievement_id The given achievement ID to award
 * @param  integer $user_id        The given user's ID
 * @param  string $this_trigger    The trigger
 * @param  integer $site_id        The triggered site id
 * @param  array $args             The triggered args

Not sure what all information you have at the point of your filter, but if you can somehow get the achievement ID and the user, I believe you can get it awarded to the user with this.

Hi Michael;

That’s actually part of the problem. I’m using badgeos_maybe_award_achievement_to_user (to avoid duplicate badge awards), but I have to hard code in the associated badge IDs to do it. I built a dropdown menu for users to select which learndash course they want to award – which I could similarly do for badgeOS badges – but it would then mean that the administrator has to do this:
Select lesson
Select associated badge
Select user
Click submit

What I’d prefer is
Select lesson (or badge)
– plugin determines which badge/lesson is associated with it –
Select user
Click submit

As it stands right now, I’ve got a user ID and a lesson ID, then I use a switch to match up the lessons with the badges. It works perfectly, it just isn’t something I could package and re-use on other sites without tweaking, you know?

It definitely sounds like the bottleneck at the moment is the determining badge/lesson association, and I’m not sure offhand where in the database that information is stored. Once that’s determined, we could determine if we have any badgeos api function to fetch that value, or if we need to set up custom queries to fetch that. Also need to keep in mind, just in case, any achievements that are tied to multiple things.

What I’m confused by most of all is that my triggering the learndash_process_mark_complete function doesn’t also trigger the BadgeOS Learndash integration, since – from what I can tell – the integration hooks into learndash_lesson_completed which is called during the learndash_process_mark_complete function.

Looking at the databases, when you set a badge to be awarded by a learndash trigger, the _badgeos_earned_by field is set to trigger, and then another post entry is created in the database. For example if the badge was id 100, the additional post entry would be 101, and that entry contains the learndash trigger information.

The logic would follow that I’d need to write a query to search for the lesson’s post ID in field_badgeos_learndash_object_id. Then award the badge with the ID previous to the one that I found that in… phew..

Haven’t forgotten about this, just trying to find time with our other developers to work out the best advice for this topic at hand.

Thanks Michael; I really appreciate you taking the time. For now I’ve hardcoded the badges to award, but if I can make this dynamic then I would like to share the plugin back to the community and hopefully someone else can make use of it.

Cheers,
Allen

Let us know so and we can look it over and help get it in top-shape for possible inclusion.

That would be fantastic, thank you! Hopefully once we get past this last hurdle we can work on that. Cheers!

Hi-
Has there been any update on this?

I’m using the plugin and I actually am having trouble having the Badge be awarded even when I hard code it in. Any reasons why that may be?

Looking forward to this being working as it is a vital piece to having Learndash/BadgeOS work well for classroom teachers.

thank you!
Matt

Hi Matt,

Are you having the learners mark their lessons complete, or are you using something so an instructor marks the learner complete?

The plugin I built, albeit kind of shoddy, does award the badge that’s hardcoded in. I’d be happy to share the code with you, or take a look at yours.

Feel free to reply here or email me: [email protected]

Thanks Allen! I’ve sent you an email.

If either of you two stumble onto a solution, let us know so we can help anyone else or possibly integrate it into the plugin.

We’ve got this plugin working great!

The problem I was having was that you must have the badge awarded by “admin-only.”

Hope that helps.

Matt

Hmm, not sure if that’s going to qualify as a bug or an unintended feature ??

It’s still not up to what we need, but there’s been some other ideas that I’ve worked on for Matt which might be of interest to the BadgeOS community. The only thing is, between my various jobs I don’t have time to look up how to build the front end for them the way I’d like to. If you’d be willing to lend a bit of expertise feel free to reach out to me by email. [email protected]

Cheers,
Allen