# Find or Create Leaderboard

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## Introduction

Gets a leaderboard by name. The resulting ID will be valid for the duration of the game session, you should in general cash this value early and use it for future operations against the board.

### API Name

The name of the board to find or create

### Sort Method

How should the board be sorted

* Ascending\
  The top-rank is the lowest score value.
* Descending\
  The top-rank is the highest score value.

### Display Type

The display type used by the Steam Community website to know how to format the leaderboard scores when displayed.

* Numeric\
  The score is just a simple numerical value.
* Time Seconds\
  The score represents a time, in seconds.
* Time Milliseconds\
  The score represents a time, in milliseconds.

### Callback

An event that will be called when complete and contains the board ID.

## Nodes

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