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« on: March 22, 2007, 11:05:13 AM »

I've been playing with the demo for a couple of days, and have some newbie questions:

(1) I'm doing 100-point ratings. Can I convert the display to show 92 instead of 92.0?

(2) How to disable the graph so it doesn't show either bars or stars.

(3) Search box is enabled in configuration for listings and directory, but the fields I've created don't show for searching. Clicking "Advanced" just brings up a text field and selectable categories. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2007, 11:22:11 AM »

(1) I'm doing 100-point ratings. Can I convert the display to show 92 instead of 92.0?
(2) How to disable the graph so it doesn't show either bars or stars.
I can help you with these if you decide to buy. Spending time supporting customizations with trial users is not my best use of it, I hope you understand.

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(3) Search box is enabled in configuration for listings and directory, but the fields I've created don't show for searching. Clicking "Advanced" just brings up a text field and selectable categories. What am I doing wrong?
Do you see the fields when you submit a new item? Make sure the fields are checked for search in the fields manager.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2007, 12:57:45 PM »

(1) and (2) -- Of course I understand -- just looking to make sure that's possible before I buy.

(3) I'm clearly confused about the conceptual difference between content and review -- please help me out.

I'm developing a wine site that will use jReviews for its wine reviews, written by editors and rated on a 100-point scale. The reviews need to be searchable by users on a variety of fields (vintage, region, rating, etc.).

I assumed that I needed to create REVIEW fields for this. But these fields are not searchable -- or at least they don't show up, as I described above.

If I enter the data through CONTENT fields I can make them searchable, as you described, but then it seems impossible to assign a rating as I can to a review.

What am I missing, and how should this be set up? Is there a tutorial or FAQ that defines and explains the differences between Content and Review?

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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2007, 03:07:16 PM »

This has been asked several times and there are answers around the forum, but I tried finding them with no luck  Sad

You can enable the review form for editors in the FORMS tab of jReviews. You have to define who your editors are for the purpose of jReviews in the REVIEWS tab.

There's another way of doing this as well, which has it's advantages and some users have opted for this. You disable the editor reviews and instead use the custom fields to create your rating criteria. You have to create some dummy criteria if you are not going to be using the user reviews.

1 - create field group for editor ratings
2 - create select list fields for rating criteria. Now you have to add the options to each field, a pain since you have 100 of them for each criteria! Since you are rating from  1 to 100, you are not going to create 100 images for the rating stars, so I am not sure what you do here. Maybe just display the rating value without images.
4- create dummy criteria, because it's required, and assign it the editor rating field group.

You are all set. When you submit a new entry, it will have the rating criteria as well. Now a content is also a review.

The benefits? you can search and order on rating criteria if you want to.
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