Building Views with Fivestar and VotingAPI

Drupal version: 6.x

September 30, 2008

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This videocast covers three modules, wrapped together to provide a flexible solution for displaying information about content ratings in a list.

VotingAPI: Central storage of votes and rating information.
Fivestar: A flexible widget for registering votes on a 1-10 star basis.
Views: The ultimate Drupal query builder, capable of pulling out lists of information from the database.

In Drupal 6, the options in configuring views has become drastically more complex. This videocast helps understand how to setup views that display information about the current average rating for piece of content and also how to pull in an individual users results, each displayed as Fivestar widgets.

by nate
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17 min 29 sec
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Nice tutorial

On September 30th, 2008 Robert Carr (not verified) said:

Nate

Awesome stuff. I'm finally on the way to Views nirvana, so thanks for this really neat presentation

Fixing the preview problem...

On September 30th, 2008 merlinofchaos (not verified) said:

<?php
function fivestar_init() {
  if (arg(0) == 'admin' && arg(1) == 'build' && arg(2) == 'views' && arg(3) == 'edit')) {
    ...add css here...
  }
}
?>

Great Tutorial!

On October 2nd, 2008 Mark Jarrell (attheshow) (not verified) said:

Thanks for showing us this, Nate. I'm pretty sure I'll be doing this in a site very soon, and this was extremely helpful.

Voting API arguments

On October 6th, 2008 TUc (not verified) said:

Hi Nate,
Thanks for the great videocast. These stuff is really needed to level up a lot of people's understanding about Views.
I have a question, though. I wondered of it would be possible to have UID's as arguments for your view, so that you could filter on the individual nodes that were cast.

Assume our view is displayed on the path "votes". The path "votes/2" would give the table that you made, but only displaying the votes of the user with UID 2.

Voting API doesn't seem to introduce arguments by itself. But is a work-around possible?

Thanks,
TUc

I need help to open this MP4 video.

On October 10th, 2008 Tony (not verified) said:

HI, all,
I tried to open this mp4 video using QuickTime and Realplayer. I can listen but I failed to watch this video clip.
Do you have the same problem?

Thanks for helping me out.
Tony

I need help to open this MP4 video.

On October 10th, 2008 Tony (not verified) said:

HI, all,
I tried to open this mp4 video using QuickTime and Realplayer. I can listen but I failed to watch this video clip.
Do you have the same problem?

Thanks for helping me out.
Tony

Two for One

On October 24th, 2008 Ron (not verified) said:

Two great tutorials in one Views and 5 Star.

I been struggling with views for D6, you have just solved two problems for me.

Thanks very much

Ron

The video is not playing in full....

On October 26th, 2008 Lars (not verified) said:

The video stops after 1/4 of it's full length. Please, I need to se the whole thing...

Lars

great screencast - just one

On October 27th, 2008 theamoeba (not verified) said:

great screencast - just one problem, i do not see the node relationship when i am creating the view. It does not show up in the filter list. I have followed the instructions carefully and have looked for modules that may be missing, but all seems right. I am running on drupal 6.5. views 2, voting api/fivestar (latest).

please help.

thanks

nevermind. i figured that i

On October 27th, 2008 theamoeba (not verified) said:

nevermind. i figured that i needed to use views2 rc2.0 +

Views showing each individual vote when logged out

On November 3rd, 2008 chrisindallas (not verified) said:

When I am logged in, everything is working just like the tutorial, but when I log out and go to the page generated by the view, or if an anonymous user visits the site, every individual vote is shown. The votes are grouped together by the title, and the order seems correct, but instead of just showing the average, every vote is shown. This seems to be the same whether I use "Voting Results" or "Individual Votes" relationship. Any ideas?

Same problem

On March 23rd, 2009 Johan Nyberg (not verified) said:

I have the exact same problem, when logged out, I get duplicates of the rated content. AND also the "My rating" column, i.e. the column where the user can rate the content, is already pre-populated with a rating! I guess this has to do with having multiple uid's with the value 0 in the db.

Anyone has a solution for this?

Same problem

On March 23rd, 2009 Johan Nyberg (not verified) said:

Anyone has a solution for this?

Thanks for this post

On November 6th, 2008 tomrenner (not verified) said:

...don't know for how many hours I've been struggling without a relationship. Thanks for making things so clear so easily! Cheers!

You saved my life!!!!

On November 7th, 2008 Web Addict (not verified) said:

I was seriously going mad trying to weed through the new Views interface to get the votingapi and Fivestar to do their thing. It's crazy that something as simple as mentioning that you now need to create a relationship for this to fall into place wasn't. I'm sure there are plenty of people just like me trying to scan through the 50 billion useless, outdated and repetitive posts gather by Drupal.org search.

Anyway thank you so much for clearing this all up for me. Maybe there should be some way to tie amazingly enlightening videos like yours to the module project pages on Drupal.org and vise-versa. I'm sure the support requests would drop substantially and create more confident webmasters more willing to dive deeper into Drupal .

great tutorial

On November 8th, 2008 Noyz (not verified) said:

This is will please so many readers. Thanks for it.

video is not playing full

On November 21st, 2008 shubha (not verified) said:

The video stops after 1/4 of it's full length. Please, I need to see the whole thing...

Great tutorial

On November 27th, 2008 Sebastien (not verified) said:

Many thanks, really clear, helpful and time saving!

Great! Thanks for this! But

On December 9th, 2008 brain2xml (not verified) said:

Great! Thanks for this!
But one more question, what if I want to show results not in stars? I wana show result in a poins (like 3.5, 3) like in view editing page, how to do this?

Views fields - seperate your vote and average vote

On January 22nd, 2009 shane (not verified) said:

I would like to separate the tally for "your vote" and "average vote + number of votes" into separate fields in views. Any idea how to do that?

listing of everyone who voted, and what they voted

On January 26th, 2009 shane (not verified) said:

To add to this previous request, how can we get a listing of everyone who voted and what they voted?

In my case, it is for a spreadsheet where a small group of people are rating applications to a conference workshop. I want to know what everyone voted, not just the average.

A big thanks from the UK

On February 5th, 2009 Luke (not verified) said:

Hi,

Just wanted to say a big thanks to Nate, Addison, Kent (And the rest of the team) for providing the videocasts.

I am just about to start on my second drupal site and your tutorials are proving invaluble.

Thanks again

Luke

Thanks for this

On February 6th, 2009 Dwarg (not verified) said:

I just wanted to say thanks for this screencast. I finally got around to watching and it makes Views so much clearer.

I'm reading Using Drupal right now and it's exactly the Drupal book I've been waiting for as well. These kind of examples are the perfect way to help people unlock Drupal.

Thanks again!

Great tutorial and all was

On February 18th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Great tutorial and all was perfect until I created a View with filters, but when a filter is used the filter results do no show the stars of Fivestar as the initial page does, just the non css widget? Why is this? Thanks

Turn off Use Ajax

On February 19th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

The error was caused by the Use AJAX on the basic setings being, on, turning it off and the stars where there

QT stopped

On February 24th, 2009 Bob (not verified) said:

i downloaded latest version of QT for windows but the video also froze quarter of a way through.

Great tutorial

On March 23rd, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Just wanted to say, this was a great tutorial, helped me get exactly what i as after, great job and thanks a lot!!

Ben.

Fantastic, thanks!

On April 10th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

As a Drupal newbie - just a few weeks in - there's no way I could have figured out all these details on my own. I was pretty frustrated that the rating didn't show up in my view after following a simple procedure that I had thought would work. (This turned out to be way more complicated than I would have ever dreamed.) After following your step-by-step procedure, though, mine works great - thanks a bunch!

Grant