Journey settings
Every journey carries the same settings, whichever surface you create it on.- Name - What members see. Up to 100 characters.
- Completion window - The interval during which members’ actions count towards this journey. Members can only complete milestones inside it.
- Start - When actions begin counting. It defaults to the moment you create the journey, so earlier activity does not count. To include earlier activity, set the start back to the point where you want counting to begin.
- End - When actions stop counting. A journey is set to inactive once it ends. Leave it blank to keep the window open indefinitely.
- Completion award - The award granted automatically when a member completes every milestone. Optional.
- Active - The journey’s publication status. Members can only make progress when the journey is active and the action falls inside the completion window.
Creating a journey in Studio
Go to Journeys under Engagement. The table lists every journey in your community.
The Journeys page in Studio

The Details step of the create-journey wizard in Studio
Details
Milestones

The Milestones step of the create-journey wizard in Studio
Milestone fields
Each milestone is defined by:- Name - What members see for this step.
- Action - The activity that counts. See the action types below.
- Goal count - How many times the action must happen. Only shown for actions that can be counted.
- Scope to channel - Limit the milestone to one Slack channel, or leave it as any channel. Join a specific Slack channel always needs one.
- Scope to emoji - Limit a reaction milestone to a specific emoji.
Milestone action types
Actions are grouped in the picker:Editing a journey in Studio
Click a journey in the list to open its detail page. From there you can edit its details, add, edit, reorder, and delete milestones, and read its progress analytics.Creating a journey in Slack
Open the Tightknit app home, then click Journeys under the Gamification module.Journeys list and create form
To create a new Journey, click theJourneys button in the Gamification module to access the Journeys List panel.

In Slack: Journeys list panel
+ Create Journey to open the Journey creation modal, then set the journey settings.

In Slack: Create Journey modal
Manage milestones
Next, you can manage the Milestones that make up the Journey. Click the••• menu next to the Journey and select the 🚩 Manage Milestones action.

Manage Milestones menu action

In Slack: Milestones list for a Journey
Reorder milestones
You can customize the display order of Milestones within a Journey. From the Milestone list, click the••• menu next to a Milestone and use the Move Up or Move Down actions to rearrange the order. The updated order is reflected everywhere Milestones are displayed, including the member-facing “My Journeys” panel. This is purely a visual change and has no effect on the order in which milestones are achieved.
Milestones
In Studio, milestones are managed from the journey’s own page. See Milestone fields and Milestone action types above. The rest of this section covers the Slack flow. A Milestone is a certain goal or criteria that a member of the community can meet in order to receive a reward. Each Milestone is associated with a single parent Journey. You can create up to 10 Milestones per Journey.Create a milestone in Slack
To access Milestones for a Journey, click the Manage Milestones menu option from the Journeys List panel. Click+ Create Milestone button to access Milestone creation, where you can configure the following:
- Name - the name of the Milestone
- Action - the action type of the Milestone
- Count Threshold - for supported action types, the Count Threshold is the number of actions the member must perform in order to complete the Milestone. For example, for the “Post in channel” Milestone, setting the Count Threshold to 10 would mean the member must post 10 times in the channel to complete the Milestone. See action types.
- Scope to: Slack Channel - for supported action types, the actions can be scoped to a specific Slack channel (only activated channels may be used). Actions must occur by a member in this channel to count towards completion of the Milestone. If left blank, actions across all activated channels will count towards completion of the Milestone. The “Join a specific Slack channel” action cannot be left blank.
- Scope to: Emoji - for supported action types, the actions can be scoped to a specific emoji. Actions must use this emoji to count towards completion of the Milestone. If left blank, any emoji will count towards completion of the Milestone.

In Slack: Create Milestone modal
Action types
Completing milestones
When a member meets the conditions required to complete a Milestone in the community, they will receive a private notification along with the Award, if any award is configured.
Milestone achieved notification
Adding or removing milestones of an active journey
Adding a new Milestone to an active Journey adds a new requirement for all members who have not yet completed the Journey. Members who are in progress will now need to complete the new Milestone in addition to any remaining ones. Members who previously completed the Journey keep their Journey achievement. The new Milestone will appear as not yet achieved in their “My Journeys” panel, but a note will indicate that their completion is not affected. Removing a Milestone from an active Journey removes that requirement for all members. Members who were working towards the removed Milestone will lose their progress on it. Removing a Milestone does not automatically complete the Journey for members who have now achieved all remaining Milestones. Journey completion is only evaluated when a member achieves a new Milestone within that Journey. If a member has already achieved all remaining Milestones, there is no trigger to re-evaluate their Journey completion.Modifying milestones of an active journey
When you edit a Milestone that belongs to an active Journey, the change takes effect immediately for all future progress checks. However, the impact depends on each member’s current status with that Milestone. Members who have already completed the Milestone Completed Milestones are stored as achievement records. These records are not affected by changes to the Milestone’s criteria. If a member has already completed the Milestone and received credit, they keep that achievement regardless of any edits you make. Example: A Milestone requires 1 post in#introductions. Alice has already completed it. You change the Milestone to require a post in #general instead. Alice keeps her achievement. She does not need to post in #general.
Members with partial progress towards the Milestone
Members who are actively working towards a Milestone but haven’t completed it yet are the most affected by changes. Because progress is calculated dynamically against the current Milestone criteria, any prior activity that no longer matches the updated criteria will stop counting towards their progress.
Example: A Milestone requires 5 posts in #introductions. Bob has posted 3 times in #introductions. You change the Milestone’s channel to #general. Bob’s 3 posts in #introductions no longer count. His progress resets to 0, and he now needs 5 posts in #general.
Example: A Milestone requires 3 reactions given in any channel. Carol has given 2 reactions. You increase the count threshold from 3 to 5. Carol still has her 2 reactions counted (the action type and channel didn’t change), but she now needs 3 more instead of 1 more.
New members who haven’t started
New members are unaffected. They will see and work towards the updated Milestone criteria from the start.
Deleting a milestone or journey
If you want to retire a Milestone without losing member achievements, edit the Journey instead. You can deactivate the Journey to hide it from new members while preserving all existing progress and achievements. Deleting an entire Journey removes all of its Milestones and their associated achievement records. If you want to stop new members from starting a Journey while keeping historical data intact, deactivate the Journey rather than deleting it.Progressing through journeys in Slack
The “My Journeys” panel in Slack
Members can use theMy Journeys global shortcut to view the Journeys available in the community and check their personal progress for each one.

In Slack: My Journeys modal
View Details button to see the detailed description of the Milestones that comprise the Journey and how to achieve each of them.

In Slack: Journey details and milestones
Progress report
When a member completes a Milestone that is a part of a Journey in the community, they will receive a private notification indicating their new progress towards completing the Journey.
Journey progress notification
Completing a journey
When a member completes all Milestones in a Journey, they will receive a private notification along with the Award, if any award is configured.
Journey completion notification
Journey progress analytics
Admins can track how the community is progressing through a journey in Studio. Go to Journeys under Engagement and click a journey’s name to open its detail page, then select the Analytics tab.Summary cards

The Analytics tab on a journey in Studio
- Completion rate — the percentage of active members who have completed every milestone in the journey.
- Members completed — the count of active members who have finished the journey.
- Avg milestones completed — the average number of milestones completed per active member.
Completion by milestone
A horizontal bar chart shows the share of active members who have completed each milestone. Use this to identify which milestones are easy wins and which are bottlenecks.Member progress table
A table lists every active member who has joined, with their progress through the journey’s milestones, sorted by furthest along first. Members who have not started appear at the bottom. You can search by name or email and paginate through the results.Limitations
- Milestone types cannot be modified once a Milestone is created.
- A Milestone added to a Journey after that Journey’s completion window has closed can never be completed. Progress is only checked in response to member activity that falls inside the window, so no later activity will trigger the check.
- Slack Connect channels have limited support with Milestones and Journeys at this time. Activity on threads which were started by users from external workspaces will not count towards your own users’ Milestone progress.
- If a custom emoji which is connected to a Milestone is removed from the Slack workspace, it will no longer be possible for users to make progress towards that Milestone. Update the emoji or remove the Milestone.
- Emoji activity that uses emoji aliases does not count towards Milestones connected to the original emoji.
- Message-based activity is only tracked on messages which were sent while the Tightknit app was present. This may exclude non-activated channels and older messages sent before Tightknit was installed or activated in the channel. For older messages, you can use the message shortcut to sync the message manually.

