Wednesday, March 14, 2012

SharePoint 2010 Rating Column - Make it work

Yes... the rating feature in SharePoint 2010 is not enabled by default.

Here is the PowerShell script to do so:

enable-spfeature -identity 915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3 -url http://servernname

That's it? Apparently just a step more... (if you do not want to wait)

NOTE: Rating gets enabled as a field type and can be configured for a list but when you try to rate any item, the ratings do not stay when you refresh the page. This is because the Social Rating Sync Job runs at a
predefined frequency.

Go to: User Profile Service Application – Social Rating Synchronization Job (Central Admin –> Monitoring –> Review Job Definitions) - Run the job to process ratings immediately!!!

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm really new to sharepoint and would like to add a ratings column to one of my sharepoint lists. Where should I enter the powershell script?
Thank you

Pramod Fanda said...

Hi Yen
The powershell script can be executed on any of your SharePoint servers in the farm.
I generally prefer to login to the application server and then run the SharePoint Management Shell where you can perform any powershell cmdlets.