Leaderboard widgets

reference australia Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read gamification-ui-leaderboard-widget.md

Leaderboard widgets appear on the Community homepage and on forum and topic landing pages. These widgets display the users with the highest point totals within the community, forum, or topic.

Important:

Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

The leaderboard widget shows the top five users. If there are more than five users that have earned points within the community, forum, or topic, Show Leaderboard appears at the bottom. Click this button to display all of the users on the leaderboard page.

[Omitted image "CommunitiesForumLeaderboardWidget.png"] Alt text: Leaderboard ranking the top users by total points.

For forums and topics, the leaderboard widget header displays the forum or topic name. When navigating to the leaderboard page from a forum/topic, the leaderboard shows the top point earners for that forum/topic.

System administrators can configure settings for the leaderboard widget:

The number of users displayed in the widget (default is 5, maximum is 10)
The time period (overall or current month)
The leaderboard type (community, forum, or topic)
Anchor to a specific forum or topic (not recommended)

Parent Topic:Gamification user interface components

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title: Leaderboard widgets
description: Leaderboard widgets appear on the Community homepage and on forum and topic landing pages. These widgets display the users with the highest point totals within the community, forum, or topic.
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# Leaderboard widgets

Leaderboard widgets appear on the Community homepage and on forum and topic landing pages. These widgets display the users with the highest point totals within the community, forum, or topic.

**Important:**

Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

The leaderboard widget shows the top five users. If there are more than five users that have earned points within the community, forum, or topic, **Show Leaderboard** appears at the bottom. Click this button to display all of the users on the [leaderboard page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/gamification-ui-leaderboard.md).

\[Omitted image "CommunitiesForumLeaderboardWidget.png"\] Alt text: Leaderboard ranking the top users by total points.

System administrators can configure settings for the leaderboard widget:

- The number of users displayed in the widget \(default is 5, maximum is 10\)
- The time period \(overall or current month\)
- The leaderboard type \(community, forum, or topic\)
- Anchor to a specific forum or topic \(not recommended\)

**Parent Topic:**[Gamification user interface components](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/communities-gamification-UI.md)