Where is leaderboard documentation?

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Hi 
 I am unable to find any documentation for leaderboards in Telligent 10, other than this: https://www.telligent.com/community-platform/features/leaderboards/ 
 The two things I am trying to find out are: a) where do I scope the leaderboards to specific activities? (I want a leaderboard to be based on the number of times people in a role have replied to questions in forums, and how many times they have had an answer verified as THE answer). b) an explanation of how leaderboards are otherwise calculated. 
 Oh, and another thing. I want to test the leaderboards, because they didn't work at all in 2008. But I see that by default the job is scheduled to run at 2.45am. Is that because it is a huge job requiring a lot of resource, regardless of the number of leaderboards or members it has to check? Or could I get away with setting it to 'every few minutes' just while I have only one leaderboard with 10 people in it, to see how it works? 
 Thanks

Mathew D&#39;Amico · Accepted Answer

Technically they could be scoped to specific activities, by awarding points for those activities, but the leaderboard can not differentiate between why the points were awarded. If a user received 250 points for answering questions and another 250 for asking questions, and a second user received 500 for answering questions, the leaderboard would not be able to tell you which one was the better question answerer, it would just see them both as having 500 points. 
 Arlo Guthrie said: In other words, if i limit a leaderboard to a user role in a group, and in that group, their main activity will be answering questions, then although they might get points for other things, it should be reasonably accurate, especially if I weight points towards an activity they do (eg verified answers). 
 Yes, this is basically what you are limited to with the current implementation of leaderboards. 
 In 10.x, Points are awarded based on Rules . In 11.x, Rules were replaced with Automations and points awards are defined there. Basically, using a Rule or Automation, you would define something like when an answer to a question is verified award x points to the user who submitted the answer. Depending on how complex a setup you wanted you could go further make the rules more specific and awards points only if the user is in a specific role, or change the amount of points for the award based on the group they were in. That may be come very difficult to maintain over time though.

Where is leaderboard documentation?

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