I have found a few comments and perhaps a module related to rating or scoring nodes, but they do not address the functionality I'm seeking to implement.
I have a website which is similar to epinions.com and other product and service review sites, though for a specialized niche. I like the nature of Drupal's taxonomy implementation, because it will allow a review to be classified under multiple appropriate "categories" for browsing by product name, manufacturer, type of product and so on without having to spend so much time picking just one narrowed-down branch of a tree that the product's review should be listed under.
Now, these reviews are submitted by users. One product can have one review per user. So, if eight different people review a product, it'll have eight reviews. They would all be associated by their taxonomy and keywords. So, for example, Manic Panic Hair Dye would be "health and beauty, hair, hair color, temporary, manic panic". Each of the eight submitted reviews would fit in that same taxonomy so that when you look at or for "manic panic" all eight reviews appear.
The problem, however, is how to handle product ratings. Two things need to be possible:
First, the person submitting the product review needs to be able to select a score (0-5, 0-10 -- whatever) from a drop-down or radio-button field as they're creating the review itself. I thought this might be done with Flexinode. Just create a new node type that contains a drop-down input menu. However, after installing Flexinode, I can't figure anything out. When you go to add a content type, it has a field for "name of field" and one for "description". There's nothing about what field-type it should be (radio, drop down, checkbox, text, textarea) or how it should be used and what kind of content should be allowed in it. So perhaps that isn't what Flexinode is intended to do after all? As difficult as Xaraya was to grasp, they actually had a tutorial for implementing your own rating stype data structure to do exactly this.
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