Rating - author and users average

That goes crazy! :)

I mean all you mention is worth to implement. But that is huge advancing of rating system. I think we will live it as it is till Cobalt 8. But we will add all features you mentioned.

The thins that worry me most that we will have to create field anyway. In this case there is no sense for built in rating system at all. Because it is just double functionality.

I agree with Maik. I dont see a redundancy here since it targets 2 different groups and different purposes.

The build-in rating is for all users/guest to rate an article/product and the result is calculated based on all ratings.

The individual rating (additional field) reflects just the opinion of the author and does not need any computation. Of course it would be nice to have it a multirating field to have the option to rate several options of the article product.

These ratings belong to Cobalt and not to any profiling extension.

btw, the mootools slider you use in the digit field would be also nice as an additional rating tool option. :D

http://developer.expressionz.in/downloads/mootools_double_pinned_slider_with_clipped_gutter_image_v2.2/slider_using_mootols_1.2.html

I am sorry to be dumm but I completely lost here. I cannot understand what rating you mean. I home sackgesicht will explain it to me very soon :D

Just forgot to mention...,

an extra Multi-Rating field could also be used to display the Authors "Skills"! Multiple fields could have different headlines! A nice side-effect: Everything is independant from the visiter's ratings.

Example (1 field, 1 headline or label) :

You mean someone rates skill of the user or this rating calculated automatically from other data?

Yes, we need in Cobalt the existing record rating and an additional multi rating field. :D

The rating of users belongs to a "profiling application"...

something as joomgalaxy direcotry for joomla ?

http://www.joomgalaxy.com/demo/index.php?option=com_joomgalaxy& ;view=entry_detail&entryid=6&Itemid=486&lang=en

Sackgesicht Yes, we need in Cobalt the existing record rating and an additional multi rating field. :D

The rating of users belongs to a "profiling application"...

Just wanted to "bump" this topic again. Because the status is still "open" ;)

I consider this as solved. Since we have now rating API, we can format rating as we wish. We also have multiple properties rating templates.

It might be good to add rating result template in the future though.

Sergey I consider this as solved. Since we have now rating API, we can format rating as we wish. We also have multiple properties rating templates.

It might be good to add rating result template in the future though.

What about Author's/Site's rating and Users ratings? Hence the 3 example images in initial post. How to do that without an extra field?

You can do that with Rating API. YOu can get summ of ratings of almost anything with it. And then show in form you like most.

Sergey You can do that with Rating API. YOu can get summ of ratings of almost anything with it. And then show in form you like most.

Yes, but my question is how to show 1 rating from

A.) the record's Author
B.) the Site/Directory Owner (who might rate muliple records from different Authors)
C.) Visiters ratings

How to display and distinguish between the different ratings?
For instance, I might display these rating combinations:

A and C

B and C

A , B , C

Does Rating API allow to filter by userID ? I mean, any way to check who did the actual rating? I can't imagine how to get a separate rating submission from A) and B). Even if they use the same rating as C), how would you show these single ratings like in my screenshots?

pepperstreet Does Rating API allow to filter by userID ?

Sure. read about rating API here and user rating example is there. There is $condition parameter that you can add. Examples:

• r.user_id = 818 - all ratings of user 818 in all sections
• r.user_id = 818 AND r.section_id = 2 - all ratings of user 818 in section 2
• r.section_id = 2 - average rating of all records in section 2

With this system you can even calulate rating of all chidren of parent article or almost anything.

• r.user_id = 818 - all ratings of user 818 in all sections
• r.user_id = 818 AND r.section_id = 2 - all ratings of user 818 in section 2
• r.section_id = 2 - average rating of all records in section 2

With this system you can even calulate rating of all chidren of parent article or almost anything.

Thanks for the headsup and tips! Valuable infos.

So, all participants would use the same rating system. That also means that the author's or siteowner's rating will be considered for the average/totals, right? But that would influence the result, doesn't it? Wouldn't I have to "exclude" or "deduct" the author/siteowner to get a correct result.

If you want to exclude then add it to $condition

r.section_id = 2 AND r.user_id != 818

Where 818 is ID of the current user.

Sergey If you want to exclude then add it to $condition r.section_id = 2 AND r.user_id != 818 Where 818 is ID of the current user.

Thank you! Cool stuff.

I look forward to this. Would there be somehow an option to use several "Multiple rating options" in type based on what parent type is? :)

klox7 I look forward to this. Would there be somehow an option to use several "Multiple rating options" in type based on what parent type is? :)

You can do almost anything. And rating API is already there. You can start using it.