Rating: Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

Marius Slette Johansen

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Hi,

I'm trying to make a thumbs up/down like rating system for forum topics/replies. The rating system as is does not like negative values so i have to store 0's and 1's I guess. Any Ideas how to effectively store and retrieve this type of rating?

I want to store the number of ratings, and get how many likes/dislikes a certain topic/reply (or any entity) has.

#39300

May 10, 2010 10:46

Karoline Klever

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Hi,

You can save the ratings using attributes for both EPiServer.Community.Forum.Topic and EPiServer.Community.Forum.Reply (for example one attribute for likes and another one for dislikes).

You can find more information on using attributes here: http://karolikl.blogspot.com/2009/07/attributes-in-episerver-relate.html

Karoline

#39315

Edited, May 10, 2010 15:50

Marius Slette Johansen

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I did consider using Attributes at first, but is that faster than the using the Query system? Then again, it would take me 5 minutes to use Attributes compared to Query, but Query is more maintainable throughout the lifespan of the system when you consider staging/deployment/upgrading.

Unless there is a magical and secret way to easily move attributes between instances of Community?

#39484

May 18, 2010 10:54