Comments on: How to configure a SharePoint Blog Rating System

By: Nidhi

Nidhi — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:51:55 +0000

Hi Jason,

This voting does not work in categories part. it only works with default part.
Any Suggestion?

By: MologokoStudios

MologokoStudios — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:00:57 +0000

sorry, i added some code above that got stripped,
but what I was trying to say is that i would add a test variable to the whole thing.

Like:

xsl:variable name=”postid” select=”current()/@ID

ranked

xsl:if test=”/dsQueryResponse/Ranking/Rows/Row[@PostID= $postid ]/@Ranking”
xsl:value-of select=”format-number(sum(/dsQueryResponse/Ranking/Rows/Row[@PostID= $postid ]/@Ranking) div count(/dsQueryResponse/Ranking/Rows/Row[@PostID= $postid ]/@Ranking), "###0.0;-###0.0")” /
xsl:if
xsl:if test=”not(/dsQueryResponse/Ranking/Rows/Row[@PostID= $postid ]/@Ranking)”
0.0
/xsl:if
out of 5.0

By: MologokoStudios

MologokoStudios — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:54:33 +0000

ranked 0.0 out of 5.0

By: Jason Colon

Jason Colon — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:12:57 +0000

Unfortunately, I have no experience with MOSS 2010 nor SP Designer 2010. If I get time, I’ll download a demo to test it out and post the results here.

Sorry I can’t be more help!

By: Blanca Córdova

Blanca Córdova — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:39:52 +0000

Jason Hi!
I’m not what you may call a SharePoint true expert. Actually i’m exploring SharePoint for the first time, but unfortunately (regarding your opinion) im starting with MOSS 2010. I’m trying to follow the steps for the ranking system in SP Designer 2010 but i’m finding it really difficult ’cause the interface is fundamentally different. Is there a way to replicate this mechanism on the 2010 beta environment?

By: Mahendra Ghedia

Mahendra Ghedia — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:50:21 +0000

Tyus and Other having NaN problem,

-go Step#25 and have Edit formula dialog box.
-Select your Data and cut it (for example you will be having like ../../../Thread_Rates/Ratings/Rows/Row/@Rating. cut it…)
-now you have nothing in xPath formula text box
-Double click on “Average” item under “Select a function to insert”
-it will insert “sum() div count()”
-paste your data under brackets of sum and count which you cut in previous step
-click on Ok

you are all set…

By: Tyus

Tyus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:41:07 +0000

Hey Helen or anyone else who solved the NaN problem, how did you do it? what do you mean you put the 0 before the code? like 0(sum(../../../../Post_Ranks/Ranking/Rows/Row[@Post=current()/@Title]/@Ranking)div count(../../../Post_Ranks/Ranking/Rows/Row[@Post=current()/@Title]/@Ranking))
or like 0 before step 25 or what? Any help I would welcome. thx

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:38:50 +0000

Spectacular job and it worked perfect. I would like to perform a similar task and was wondering if you might be able to help. I simply want a “vote” feature. So when you click “Vote now” you have the option of “yes” or “no”. Rather than displaying “Ranked x.x out of 5″; I would like to display “x(number) said yes, y(number) said no”. Where x= the total count on that post of users that selected “yes” and y=total count on that post of users that selected “no”.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and again good job on this, it has already helped tremendously.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:24:18 +0000

Thanks- I actually remember how to do this after I posted that comment.

Can we ensure only one vote per user per post?

By: Jason Colon

Jason Colon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:17:48 +0000

Thank you! I’m glad you like it.

By default, Sharepoint returns users to the “All Items” view.

Add your blog home page URL to the end of the “Vote Now” link: ?Source=http:///default.aspx

Once the user votes, the survey form will read the “source=” section of the URL and navigate the user back to the blog home page.