Document Rating in Alfresco Share

[rzs]

Hello,

In Document Library in Alfresco Share, is it possible to assign a rating to a document, say from 1 to 5. It should also be possible to search documents based on their rating.Any ideas on how to accomplish this would be really appreciated.

Thank You

[mikeh]

I see there being two options:

1. Re-use Share's tagging functions. You could create a new filter component that displayed tags like "★★★☆☆" (3/5 for those using MSIE) for quick access. You could also create a dropdown that tagged documents, rather than using the existing tag picker. Finally, you could display those tags in a separate section of the details if you like. The advantage of this approach is that tagging is well supported already in Share. The disadvantage is that users might be confused by the ratings appearing in tag pickers.


2. Create a new "rateable" aspect with a rating property and create the appropriate UI and data webscripts to perform CRUD operations on it. Cleaner implementation, but possibly more work.

Thanks,
Mike