collective.wasthisuseful 1.0

collective.wasthisuseful is a Plone product that adds a viewlet which allows users to rate the usefulness of a content item.

It also registers an Event which can be used in Plone's Content Rules so that an e-mail can be sent immediately after a rating has been submitted.

Installation

To your buildout.cfg, add:

eggs =
 ...
 collective.wasthisuseful

Usage

Enable e-mail notification

Create a content rule which has "Usefulness rated" as a trigger. As the rule's action, select "Send e-mail". In the e-mail message, you can use ${usefulness_comment} and ${usefulness_value} as variables (in addition to the usual ${url} and ${title}.

Select enabled types

The settings form which enables you to select on which content types the viewlet is available can be found at @@wasthisuseful-settings. Type this after you site url.


Product's homepage

Here are some key features of "collective.wasthisuseful":

Viewlet (below content) presents a form with the question "Was this information useful?":

· Clicking "Yes" immediately submits
· Clicking "No" shows a comment field and submit button

· By default, enabled for "Document" types, others selectable.
· Enables immediate e-mail notification, with the rating value ("Yes" or "No") and rating comment (in the case of "No") as e-mail variables.

Requirements:

· Python
· Plone CMS

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Stable release