The points and badges you see on the leaderboard, on community member profiles, and across the FME Community recognize the contributions and accomplishments of each user.
Having more points and badges doesn’t mean you’re a better FME user. Instead, it shows that you’ve contributed more to the FME Community and are a more active member.
Please review What is the FME Community and the FME Community Guidelines for more information on interacting in the community.
Remember! The more contributions you make, the more points and badges you earn, and the more you’re recognized by the FME Community.
Reputation Points
Point totals reflect the value you add by contributing to our community. When you ask questions, engage in conversations, and provide answers, you help strengthen our community knowledge base.
Your points are reflected as reputation points on the community leaderboard. The leaderboard can show either all time reputation or weekly point scores.
Actions that Earn Points
- Answer a Question (Best Answer): 15 points
- Criteria: Your reply is marked with the ‘Solved’ checkmark on a question
- Receive a Like or Vote: 10 points
- Criteria: Another user likes your post or reply. You won’t get points for liking your own post.
- Reply to Post: 5 points
- Criteria: Reply to questions, ideas, and other posts in the community. We want you to engage in the conversation and help others. Don’t be afraid to reply!
- Create a Post/Question/Idea: 5 points
- Criteria: You create the original post. Either a question, idea, or conversation.
- Give a Like or Upvote an Idea: 2 points
- Criteria: You like another user’s post, reply, or idea.
Earn Bonus Points
Currently, there are two ways to earn bonus points:
- Watch an FME webinar. Once you’ve watched the webinar, take the code provided and enter it into the ‘Get Your Webinar Badge’ dialog (see below). Not only will you earn a webinar badge, you’ll also earn 15 bonus reputation points.
- Answer an unanswered question that is more than three days old and has no replies at all. Doing so will earn you 10 bonus reputation points.
Of course, you should watch the entire webinar. If you’re answering an unanswered question, make sure your answer is helpful to the user.
Additionally, we will occasionally run community engagement challenges with special bonus point incentives. Follow our Community Announcements for details. You can see your all-time points total at any time on the Leaderboard (accessible from the Community homepage).
Badges
Badges recognize specific achievements earned by you and others in the community. You’ll see badges on profile pages and profile cards (when you hover over another user).
You can also view all of the available badges and which ones you have earned by clicking on the List Your Badges button on the FME Community homepage.
Most badges are automatically applied to your account through your actions. However, if you watch a webinar, you can submit the code on the FME Community homepage (see below).
What kinds of badges can I earn?
There are several different types of badges that can be earned and awarded throughout the FME Community:
Teacher, Expert, and Student Badges
These badges are earned by posting new questions and answering questions.
Teacher Badge: Good teachers explain, demonstrate, and inspire. Users who answer questions in the FME Community exhibit all these excellent qualities, and are recognized at various levels with the Teacher Badge (grey, bronze, silver, or gold), depending on how many questions they answer.
Expert Badge: You're not just a teacher, but a professor, and an elite one at that. Your skill is rewarded at multiple levels with the Expert Badge (grey, bronze, silver, or gold), depending on how many of your answers are marked as best.
Student Badge: There is no such thing as a bad question! The desire to learn is all you need in order to post a question to the FME Community. Your curiosity is recognized at various levels with the Student Badge (grey, bronze, silver, or gold), depending on how many questions you ask.
Webinar Badges
Most badges are automatically applied to your account through your actions. However, you may receive a reward code - for example by watching a Safe Software webinar. You can submit the code on the FME Community homepage to redeem your badge.
The more webinars you watch, the more badges you earn (and learn a lot more FME skills too:
- Webinar Watcher (Grey): watch one webinar
- Webinar Watcher (Bronze): watch five webinars
- Webinar Watcher (Silver): watch 10 webinars
- Webinar Watcher (Ruby): watch 15 webinars
- Webinar Watcher (Sapphire): watch 25 webinars
- Webinar Watcher (Gold): watch 50 webinars
- Webinar Watcher (Emerald, Platinum, Diamond, Rainbow): watch 75 webinars and beyond
Question Topics, Attending Events and Special Day Badges
These badges are earned by answering questions on certain topics, attending an in-person FME event, participating in our FME Community challenges, or posting on certain days.
Question of the Week Badges
Answer our Question of the Week, share your FME journey, and receive a badge. The more questions you answer, the more badges you earn:
- Socializer (Ice Breaker): answer your first Question of the Week
- Socializer (Talker): answer five Questions of the Week
- Socializer (Engager): answer 10 Questions of the Week
- Socializer (Narrator): answer 15 Question of the Week
- Socializer (Storyteller): answer 25 Questions of the Week
- Socializer (Raconteur): answer a year’s worth of Questions of the Week
- Socializer (Reporter, Bestseller, Bard, The Rainbow Connector): answer 75 Questions of the Week and beyond
Certifications from FME Academy
When you complete a course or certification on the FME Academy for the first time, you’ll receive a badge on the FME Community.
You can earn badges for the following courses:
- FME Form Basic
- FME Form Advanced
- FME Flow Authoring
- Integrate Data with the FME Platform
- Integrate Spatial Data
You can also earn badges for the following certifications:
- FME Certified Professional
- FME Flow Certified Professional
- FME Certified Trainer
- FME Business Certified Professional
Retired Badges
Badges in a light blue colour were earned on a previous FME Community iteration and are no longer available to collect.
Special Badges
There are special badges for FME Community members who were very active in a previous iteration of the FME Community. These were assigned during the FME Community launch and are no longer available.
Language Badges
If you speak another language, let others know by selecting your language in your FME Community Profile. This earns you a badge. These badges are for helping other users out, and are not used for reputation points.
What are Community Ranks?
Ranks are a simplified system of recognition. Your combination of questions, answers, votes, and other factors automatically earn you a specific rank. There are 12 ranks, from Observer up to Superstar. Ranks are denoted on your user profile or when hovering on a user profile photo.
User Profile Symbols
- A blue circle symbol means the user is a regular FME Community member.
- A green circle symbol means the user works for a Safe partner organization.
- An orange circle with an S character means the user is a Safe Software employee.
