Extend Views Support

I'm not terribly familiar with panels, but it sounds to me like you want views for this function.

Both those things you want sound like a view to me, which you could then put into the panel.

You need views arguments to do this. You'll need to go read Views docs and use other views resources for that, though.

Personally I find there's a lot of good stuff on views out in the general web - videos and blogs etc.

I appreciate the feedback.

My attitude is that it's always better to do something with existing modules if possible because they usually do these things a lot better. Also, getting experience with modules like Views and Rules makes us more aware of their considerable power.

I will be looking at the User Badges Views integration and possibly adding to it. That will hopefully make problems like this easier to solve in future.

This can be done 2 ways :
1) use views to make a panels pane, that way you can pass the views argument over to panels
2) use advanced profile kit, this works because of author pane which is required by APK

Max that is a question about Views and Panels, not User Badges.

What you want is a views argument. There are some good docs about this on the web.

Then it is fixed. The current Views support allows you to do what you want. You are asking for a tutorial on views here, not a change to the User Badges module.

You need to use an argument to specify the user to the view. It will then get their badges.

Tutorials on Views are available on the web.

That is true. Views support has been extended in the new version. You'll still need to learn about views arguments etc. to do what you want, and it was possible with the previous version of User Badges (but might be a bit easier with the new one).