Ratings

New to SharePoint 2010 are ratings. SharePoint 2010 adds another method to collect user feedback with star ratings—similar to ratings seen in iTunes and Windows Media Player. When the feature is enabled for a list or library, users can apply their rating for the list item or document and SharePoint keeps track of all user ratings to display a collective ranking. Figure 5-13 shows an example of ratings in action.

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Figure 5-13. Ratings

SharePoint 2010 does not enable rating on lists or document libraries by default. The following steps demonstrate how to enable rating functionality for a document library:

  1. From any document library view ...

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