Badges on Vendor Profiles

[kaitlynrobison]

Is it possible to include another area for vendors to upload images to their profile? We want them to be able to upload their WeddingDay badges (attached below for reference) to their profiles when they are featured. They would have these in their possession already and would just need a spot to go on and upload them. Maybe above the examples of their work? Let me know if this isn't possible and I will tell sales :)

[Jason Pollock]

This may be a good argument for creating an additional "Featured Vendor" user role. We're going to run into the same permission issues as in the "Vendors shouldn't be able to change their picture unless they are Featured" task on this. There is no good way to differentiate between Vendors & Featured Vendors.

[Josh Harmon]

Talked this over with Kaitlyn. Currently they are tagging the articles with the vendor businesses as entity references.

What I think should happen here is:

1. Add Content Type or Taxonomy (Prob content type) for Article Feature Type, this would contain Title and Image Fields
2. Add Entity Reference on blog articles (Inline Image and Slideshow Article) to the Feature Type
3. Add a view with a block display that pulls all of the current vendor articles via contextual filter, then list out the links to those articles under the badge, with a widget they can click (if logged in) to embed the html code for both the image and the link on each article for placement on their website.
4. Add the block as a field in the vendor business and hide/show the field based on featured vendor status.

We'd have to retroactively tag all of the articles with a feature type, but going forward this would keep the vendor from having to have any involvement in adding the badges, promote more cross linking, and take care of the issue of sales people having to manually send out badges.