Package com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.rating

Provides a service for evaluating resources.

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Description

Interface Summary

IRating

The interface represents a service for handling the rating of resources.

Package com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.rating Description

Provides a service for evaluating resources.

Package Specification

Purpose

The rating service handles the ratings that users give to express their evaluation of a resource. It supports add and get methods.

Configuration

The rating service can be configured with the parameters shown in the table.
The parameters can be set with the help of the user interface of the Content Management configuration framework.
For more information see the documentation Administering Content Management.

Property	Required	Description
class	yes	The class that implements the comment service interface and is used for this system
Empty rating icon	No	Empty icon (located in /etc/public/mimes/images)
Full rating Icon	No	Filled icon (located in /etc/public/mimes/images)
Count rate	No	Number of rating values (e.g. 5)
Icon height	No	Height of icons
Icon width	No	Width of icons
Max Comment	No	Number of comments initially displayed together
Ratingvalues	No	A file which includes customer settings (without extension)

The following shows a sample configuration:

Name	Value
class	com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.rating.RatingManager
Empty rating icon	empty_icon.gif
Full rating Icon	Full_icon.gif
Count rate	5
Icon height	7
Icon width	7
Max Comment	3
Ratingvalues	CustomerRating

An instance of the commnet service must be configured for each repository where it is required.

Implementation notes

A customer can define the Gifs, texts and ranges for rating . The definitions are stored in the files ending in .RatingValues. The file is stored in the directory /etc/rating and is handled as a resource bundle.

The following files must be located under /etc/rating:

� CustomerRating.properties

� CustomerRating_<Locale>.properties