SharePoint Rating Solution

SharePoint Rating Solution is a useful, effective and practical SharePoint web part that provides you with new rating capabilities and allows users to rate and comment on various pages, documents, list items and topics.
Giving users a new way of interacting and analyzing which are the most voted items on your site enables you to get a better overview on how you should manage your website content and which is the most relevant content for most of your users.
By using SharePoint Rating Solution you have the possibility to display the number of ratings and comments for each item so you can view the most popular and interesting items and documents.
Furthermore, SharePoint Rating Solution enables users to perform rating in various methods such as 5-stars rating, liking and thumb-up / thumb-down. However, the rating feature is available to any user with reader permissions, still you can enable anonymous user rating.
In fact, this SharePoint component is a standard column that allows you to specify the column’s name and choose the type of information you want to add such as hyperlink, picture, currency or date and time. Then, you can easily choose the rating type you are interested in, allow multiple comments on a single item and set the maximum number of votes.
Another feature worth mentioning is that SharePoint Rating Solution provides you with an API that enables you to rate items and display item ratings using URL addresses. This feature becomes very useful when you want to include a rating option inside a web form.
All in all, SharePoint Rating Solution proves to be a reliable and comprehensive SharePoint component that allows users to provide comments along with the rating and helps site administrators to get a better picture on the most interesting and rated items and documents.