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Locking a Topic

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 ✓ Project Owner ✓ Project Administrator 

By default, all Topics are accessible by Players and immediately playable. When a Topic is locked, Players have to perform certain actions to gain access to unlock this Topic. As an Admin, you are able to specify the actions your Players need to complete in order to unlock the Topic. 

NOTE: 

  • You require two or more Topics in a Project to be able to lock a Topic.
  • At least one of the Topics need to be available, i.e. not locked. 

When locking a Topic, a public and private Topic has to be managed differently.

When locking a public Topic

A Topic is public when Topic privacy has been set to public, allowing everyone in the Project to view and access. To lock a public Topic: 

  1. From the Project Manager, select a Topic you would like to lock. Here, you are looking for a public Topic. 
  2. Go on to edit the Topic.  
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page, select the option lock_topic.png to lock this Topic. 
  4. Then, select from the dropdown another Topic the Player has to complete in order to unlock this Topic. (Note: To complete a Topic, Players have to complete all Challenges within the Topic.)  
  5. Click save_changes.png to complete. 

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When locking a private Topic

A Topic is private when Topic privacy has been set to private, allowing only selected Players in the Project to view and access. Locking a private Topic involves 2 parts: 

Part 1: Setting the unlocking rule

  1. From the Project Manager, select a Topic you would like to lock. Here, you are looking for a private Topic. 
  2. Go on to edit the Topic. 
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page, select the option lock_topic.png  to lock this Topic.
  4. Then, select from the dropdown another Topic the Player has to complete in order to unlock this Topic. (Note: To complete a Topic, Players have to complete all Challenges within the Topic.)
  5. Click save_changes.png to complete. 

Part 2: Inviting Players into the private Topic

As this is a private Topic, only invited Players will be able to unlock this Topic.

  1. You may invite Players to the Topic using the shortcut in the yellow box - by clicking the link “Topic Player Manager”.
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  2. Alternatively, you may follow the guide here to invite Players to the Topic. 

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HOT TIP! It is important to take note of how locking a Topic and adjusting Topic privacy interacts with each other to restrict Players’ access to a Topic. Read here for more tips!

 

NOTE: Learn about the known issues when using Topic unlocking rules.

 

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