Like its predecessor, SharePoint
2013 includes ratings. Ratings collect user feedback with star
ratings—similar to ratings seen in iTunes and Windows Media Player.
When you enable the feature 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 1 shows an example of ratings in action.
SharePoint does not enable ratings on lists or
document libraries by default. The following steps demonstrate how to
enable rating functionality for a document library:
- From any Document Library View page, click the Library tab from the ribbon.
- Click the Library Settings icon from the ribbon.
- Click the Rating Settings link.
- Set the radio button option for Allow Items in This List to Be Rated as Yes.
Note If
you are trying to find the Rating Settings and not seeing it (perhaps
you are attempting the preceding steps for a document library on your
My Site), then ensure that you have enabled the Site Collection
Publishing feature.
In Figure 1,
I am hovering the mouse over the rating for a document in one of my
document libraries. SharePoint indicates that I have rated the document
with four stars. SharePoint keeps current track of my rating but
collates all user ratings for the document. Notice the numeric counter
next to the rating that shows how many ratings this document has
received.
SharePoint also supports “Like” ratings as an
alternative to star ratings. Navigate back to the rating settings of
your document library and change the voting experience to “Like.”
Instead of star ratings, users can now elect to like your list items,
as shown in Figure 2.
