The inline rating widget
Users can use the inline rating widget to view ratings that have been applied to a resource.
Users can click a twisty arrow to open and close the widget. When a user clicks the twisty, the widget opens. It works as described in the following:
- The rating widget shows ratings for the resource from which the user opened the widget.
- Its title that describes which ratings are shown.
- The inline rating widget shows one of the following sets of ratings, depending on the setting of the rating scope parameter for the widget instance. For more information about this parameter refer to the Inline rating widget parameter reference.
All ratings
This shows the average of all public ratings that the user or other users have applied to this resource and the user's own private ratings.
Community ratingsThis shows the average of all ratings that other users have applied to the resource as public ratings.
Personal ratingsThis shows the average of the personal ratings, both public and private, that the user has applied to this resource.
Personal public ratingsThis shows the public rating that the user has applied to this resource.
Personal private ratingsThis shows the private rating the user has applied to this resource.
- By default the widget displays five asterisks ( * ), where five stars are the highest rating and one star is the lowest rating that a resource can have.
- When the user hovers over an inline rating widget that was configured to show the Community ratings or All ratings, the rating distribution is shown as a popup.
- The inline rating widget provides a plus ( + ) icon that users can use to open the default rating widget. For details about this refer to the topic about “The default tagging and rating user interface”.
- Users cannot modify ratings within the inline widget. To add, update, or delete ratings, the user needs to navigate to the default rating widget by clicking the plus icon ( + ).
Parent
The inline tag and rating widgets
Inline rating widget parameter reference