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Fivestar

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Fivestar

The Five Star voting module adds a clean, attractive voting widget to nodes.

Creating and Contributing a Fivestar Widget Set

The Fivestar project is always interested in included new sets of stars with the default distribution.

Creating a review system with multi-axis average rating

This handbook is about how to setup fivestar 7.x-2.0 to use for a review system.

Creating a User Comment/Rating and Average Rating for a Content type

Setting Up the Content Type (node-type)

Setting up a Fivestar widget for content Rating

The configuration for Fivestar is spread between the content type settings page, Fivestar site settings page, and access permissions.

Setting up a Fivestar widget for user Rating

Go to configuration > Account Settings > Manage Fields.

Changing Star Display options, Value to display as Stars & Text to Display Under Stars

Go to configuration > Account Settings > Manage Display (for user profile).

Set up fivestar widget for User/Author rating with comment on any content type

Also see http://drupal.org/node/1308114

Setting up Voting Tags

Go to Configuration > Content Authoring > Fivestar.

Setting up a widget to rate posted comments

Assuming content type “EnergyBlazar” already created, the steps are as follows

Using Fivestar module with references module or entity reference module

First you need to install references module 7x version from http://drupal.org/project/references, or Entity Reference module from here

Use Node Comment and Fivestar to Create Advanced Reviews

Note that at the time this was written, fivestar required nodecomments. Fivestar can now be used on regular comments as well.

Add fivestar to custom data type

The fivestar module doesn't have an easy way to add five star to a non-entity data type. If you have a page/data type that you would like to

Fivestar for Drupal 6

Legacy documentation for the now-unsupported Drupal 6 version of Fivestar.

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