By jaddison on

Right to the point:

I've set up a View (block and page) to list the node title of a particular content type, restricted by a particular term (category). This works quite well, I'll admit. Where things seem to be falling apart is when I set up the same View to display the fivestar rating - in order. You see, it displays the rating admirably (it looks quite sharp), but...

... the sorting criteria I have applied isn't working. I'm trying to sort it by the fivestar rating.

So, the fields I have for my view are:
- Node Title
- Fivestar Rating (field_rating)

The sorting is set up as follows:
- Fivestar: Vote Results (ascending, but this doesn't seem to matter)

No sorting at all seems to be happening.

Let me know if I can provide any further information to track this down.

Thanks,

James Addison
http://www.scottisheyes.com/

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eaton commented

...You're using the fivestar module in CCK Field mode. Is that correct?

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jaddison commented

I had to think about this - but yes, that is correct. via CCK.

That way, I am able to set a rating MYSELF, and disallow others from rating, which is really what I want.

Thanks for any tips you can provide.

James Addison
http://www.scottisheyes.com/

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jaddison commented

Any further thoughts on this? I think I noticed a different voting module somewhere - would it be a better option to meet my needs?

Thanks,

James Addison
http://www.scottisheyes.com/

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jaddison commented

In a not so elegant fashion, I have worked around this issue. I hacked up the fivestar module a little bit, and decided not to go with the CCK field for fivestar.

James Addison
http://www.scottisheyes.com/

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sciman commented

I'm not sure, but what I did in v 5 was to go to content type and edited 'story' and asked to have rating of content turned on. This works, and I can then go to Views and have figured out how to define a table view sorted by ratings across the multiple stories that I put up and put fake votes on to test. I've tried other ratings and haven't got them all figued out as yet. Two requests if anybody has answers:

1) I think it'd be neat to show the average rating on a node.. like jratings might if one could get it to work. In the sorted View, for instance, I'll want to show results across many ideas/nodes and their ratings, so a "3.50" (or something like it) would be very cool.

2) I want my site users to rate a bunch of ideas, and in the future, against several alternative criteria. But for now, if I could quickly show the item and have people rate them down a list, it'd be neat. Jrating shows "average rating" in the node teaser -- which is nice. FiveStar doesn't put the rating on the node teaser automatically.. and I don't know much about theming. Does anybody know if some sort of list or shortened node would be possible for viewing one line and doing quick assessments?

Thanks for any tips!

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robertlam commented

I just hate it when you can only find drupal questions and NO answer. So here is what I do.

A. I use fivestar & voting api module with drupal 5
B. Create a content type with fivestar as a field
C. Create a view,
At page set 'view type' to Table View,
Add a field using (important ** Voting API percentage vote result (average)); handler = fivestar stars (clickable, with text),
Sort Criteria, use important ** VotingAPI percentage vote result (average); order descending

You can voting by clicking on the star which is great.

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sinasalek commented

Thanks robert, that really helped.

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