SharePoint 2010 comes with a built-in rating system which allows users to record how much they like or value a particular item or page. Sometimes, it would be useful just to be able to set a Star Rating on an item in a list and simply make use of the SharePoint stars, without using all the rating infrastructure behind the scenes.
SharePoint rating uses one graphic called Rating.png on the server:
As you can see, this graphic contains all the possible star combinations and is displayed with an offset to show only the required rating. If you create a list with a choice column called Rating and provide the choices of One, Two, Three, Four and Five, then with a small XSL style sheet attached to the list, you can display the rating in graphical form.
Save the following styling as an .xsl file and upload to a document library on SharePoint.
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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp” version=”1.0″ exclude-result-prefixes=”xsl msxsl ddwrt” xmlns:ddwrt=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime” xmlns:asp=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20″ xmlns:__designer=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer” xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform” xmlns:msxsl=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt” xmlns:SharePoint=”Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls” xmlns:ddwrt2=”urn:frontpage:internal” xmlns:o=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”>
<xsl:include href=”/_layouts/xsl/main.xsl”/> <xsl:include href=”/_layouts/xsl/internal.xsl”/>
<xsl:template name=”FieldRef_body.Rating” match=”FieldRef[@Name=’Rating’]” mode=”body”> <xsl:param name=”thisNode” select=”.”/>
<xsl:choose> <xsl:when test=”$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name] = ‘Five’”> <xsl:attribute name=”style”>background-image:url(/_layouts/images/Ratings.png);cursor:default;height:16px;margin:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-0px 0px;width:70px;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test=”$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name] = ‘Four’”> <xsl:attribute name=”style”>background-image:url(/_layouts/images/Ratings.png);cursor:default;height:16px;margin:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-16px 0px;width:70px;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test=”$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name] = ‘Three’”> <xsl:attribute name=”style”>background-image:url(/_layouts/images/Ratings.png);cursor:default;height:16px;margin:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-32px 0px;width:70px;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test=”$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name] = ‘Two’”> <xsl:attribute name=”style”>background-image:url(/_layouts/images/Ratings.png);cursor:default;height:16px;margin:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-48px 0px;width:70px;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test=”$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name] = ‘One’”> <xsl:attribute name=”style”>background-image:url(/_layouts/images/Ratings.png);cursor:default;height:16px;margin:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-64px 0px;width:70px;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name=”FieldRef_Text_body.RateText” match=”FieldRef[@Name=’RateText’]” mode=”body”> <xsl:param name=”thisNode” select=”.”/> <xsl:attribute name=”style”>background-image:url(/_layouts/images/Ratings.png);cursor:default;height:16px;margin:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-64px 0px;width:70px;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:template>
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Add the reference to the XSL style sheet above via the view web part’s miscellaneous setting and the result will look something like the example below:
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