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Adding a rating column to default Blog Site’s Page in SharePoint 2010

Dec/ 15/ 2011The Web, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

By Rosario Almaguer.

When we create a Blog site for our Site Collection, the default page doesn’t show a rating section, like in the follow image:

So if you want to show a rating you can do it following these steps:

1. Firstly, you have to click in Site Actions and select View All Site Content, in the Lists section you will find a Posts list, click on it.

2. Next, you have to access to List tab on the Ribbon and click on List Settings section. You will see a page like this:

You can see which columns are parts of the Posts list in the Columns section.

3. In General Settings section, select Rating settings and you will be linked to the follow page:

Here, you have to allow items in the Posts list to be rated, so select Yes and click OK. Wait a moment while the changes are applied to the list.

1. Now, you can see in the Columns section that two new columns were added:

5. After that, go to Posts list and see that a new column is showed in the list:

But if you go to your default page you will see that the Rating section isn’t showed. So, firstly you have to create a new view which will include:

· Title

· Created By

· Category

· # Comments

· Rating

· Body

6. So, to show the rating column in our default page, we have to open Site Actions and click on Edit Page, Click on the Post Web Part Menu

Select Edit Web Part. On the List View section, select the view that you have created and click ok.

7. Now, you will see the Post Web Part like this:

Click on Stop Editing.

8. You can edit the View of the Post Web Part opening the site in SharePoint Designer 2010, open SharePoint Designer and open the Site, in the Customization section select Edit Site Home Page.

9. On the default.aspx tab select Advanced Mode

10. Display the Split View and Select the WebPartPage:XsltListViewWebPart, The ribbon will display four new tabs, select the Design Tab and you will be able to modify the style of the list, you can play with the columns that are showed in the view.