Design of certificates

What is a certificate?

It is a PDF document that you can link to your digital credentials.

How can I create a certificate?

We invite you to watch the following video to learn how to complete your certificate step by step, or you can read the documentation below.

Through the Acreditta platform, you can link your digital credentials to PDF certificates that accredited individuals can download and share as add-ons. You can create, edit, and delete these certificates.

Click “Create New” to enter the certificate editor.

Choose the size and orientation of the document.

By default, the credential name, credential verification QR code, and credential holder name fields appear. These fields are required.

To upload images For signatures, icons, and a certificate background image, click “Image” to upload your preferred image. Remember to use the left mouse button to move it to the background or delete it, as appropriate. You can include multiple images and resize and position them as you prefer.

To place textsClick “Text.” Enter the desired content in the field and choose the size, color, and style. You can add any text you want. Click the text field to reposition it wherever you want.

You can also combine texts with variable fields from the metadata. For example, you want the text “recognition date” to appear followed by the credential date in a single field. To do this, enter the fixed text in the text and select the variable text from the menu to appear next.

To format the text, you can choose size, color, and style from the menu, and this will apply to the entire text. However, if you want to format only part of the text, you must add special characters before and after the text you want.

For example, in the text: Fecha de reconocimiento: {{awarded_date}}

If I want that Fecha de reconocimiento this is in bold, I must put ** at the beginning and end like this: **Fecha de reconocimiento:** {{awarded_date}}

If I want it in italics I must use __ So: __Fecha de reconocimiento:__ {{awarded_date}}

If I want it underlined I must use — So: –Fecha de reconocimiento:– {{awarded_date}}

Variable Types

These are all the variables you can use and how you can access specific values ​​(such as the day, or an item in a list)

Dates
You can format the dates to appear in the order and format you want by accessing the day, month or year directly using .dd, .mm, .yyyy.

For example, you can use these expressions with the subsequent result:

{{awarded_date.dd}}/{{awarded_date.mm}}/{{awarded_date.yyyy}}

30/12/2021

Año de expiración: {{expiration_at.yyy}}

Expiration year: 2032

Subscriber lists

The fields of evidence: {{evidences}}, skills: {{skills}}, criteria: {{criteria}}, standards: {{standard}} They are all lists of elements that can be accessed individually with [n] siendo n the index of the list item to access (starts at 0).

For example if we have three evidences and we use {{evidences}} They will all be printed in a row separated by commas, but we could access the second evidence only in the following way:

{{evidences[1]}}

(Remember that the index starts at 0, so to access the second index you use 1)

Objects

Some elements, such as evidence or standards, have multiple parameters that can be accessed individually. For example:

El estudiante presentó la evidencia “{{evidences[1].name}}”: {{evidences[1].description}}. Puedes ver más en el siguiente enlace: {{evidences[1].url}}

The student presented the “Degree Project Report”: Quantitative Analysis of Engineering Parameters Applied in Modernity. You can find more information at the following link: www.unigabrielamistral.edu/proyects/informe_grado_0029.pdf

Preview
Remember that you can see how your certificate is looking by clicking “Preview Certificate.”

To place credential metadata fields, click “Dynamic” and click the field you prefer. Use the menu on the left to choose the size, color, and style. You can add any fields you prefer. Click on the field to reposition it wherever you like.

Once you have the design ready, name the document and save it.

You can have multiple certificates and edit and delete them whenever you want. Remember that once a certificate is created, you can assign it to a credential.