This article describes the how to configure Asset Bank to enable users to add comments to and/or rate assets, or to vote for assets (for example if you want to set up a photo competition).
If you want users to be able to submit comments against assets, then have Customer Support activate this for you (via Switchboard).
If you want users to be able to add more than one comment per asset, change:
multiple-comments-per-asset=true
If you want users to be able to rate assets, for example by choosing a rating of 0-5 (the default), then have Customer Support activate this for you (via Switchboard).
To change the default (0-5) rating range, change:
max-rating=5
If comments=true or rating=true then when you edit a group's folders (Admin->Groups->Folders) you will see a 4th column in 'Advanced Permissions' ('Review/rate items'). To enable a group to review/rate assets in a particular folder check the checkbox in this column. Admin users will be able to review/rate a particular asset if it is in an folder that at least one of the groups is allowed to review/rate.
Please note that the Review/Rate permission does not inherit down to sub-folders. This means that you need to make a sub-folder have unique permissions rather than inheriting. This enables you to set the Review/Rate option, which means that it will display on the relevant pages for you to use. You will need to ensure any additional sub-folders you add with the Ratings enabled are set up in this way also.
If you activate ratings, this creates a new attribute (allowing it to be search from the Advanced search page if configured to show there). You need to make sure that the 'Average Rating' attribute is part of the View/Edit Display Attributes (Admin->Attributes->Display Attributes->View/edit) - otherwise the rating and 'Submit review' link will not show. If you have View split by Asset Type then ensure it is activated for all those that are relevant.
Note that the link 'Submit review' is content-manageable, i.e. you can change the text of this link.
If you want to use the ratings as a vote system, change:
ratings-are-votes=true
This will:
- Replace the series of stars with a single 'vote for this asset' link.
- Replace the average rating attribute with a voting attribute and the average rating search with a 'number of votes' search.
- Prevent users from submitting comments (i.e. so the comments=true setting will be ignored ifratings-are-votes=true)
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