Enable Session Voting

Please see the minutes of https://association.drupal.org/intranet/denver-content/node/968299 for more details. (Minutes are not posted as I write this, but they will be up shortly.)

Is fivestar preferred over another voting method?

Some discussions

• greggles on methods: http://groups.drupal.org/node/106579
• webchick on value: http://groups.drupal.org/node/151174

Is fivestar any more ready than flag?

If it's up to me to implement, I'd probably go with Flag. However, I'm really not on any session choosing type committee's.

Flag would be faster to impement - it's just a link to style and a view to create.

Fivestar would take some design direction. Don't know what Ken would want either of these to look like, but I imagine fivestar would be slower to implement depending on design needs.

Either option will take theming work so I'm up for using either.

Reading through http://groups.drupal.org/node/106579 again I think we should go with Fivestar configured to gauge someone's interest in a proposed session being chosen.

Fivestar for D7 doesn't have editable field labels though.

greggles suggested http://drupal.org/project/rate as well

How about these for voting labels?

• I have no interest in this session
• I would probably not attend this session
• I might attend this session
• I would probably attend this session
• I totally want to see this session

After reading through http://groups.drupal.org/node/151174 again and further thought I think we have four optional methods

Gather general count of interest in a session

Option 1: A up-vote only, "I am interested in this session being selected"

Option 2: Yes/No radios, "Should this session be selected for DrupalCon?" (could use average, but many down votes is strong indicator)

Specific evaluations, speaking closer to "quality"

Option 3: Non-fivestar, simple radio buttons with labels from comment #10, averaging

Option 4: Multiple fivestars, average each: Interest, Speaker quality, Topic quality (or similar)

edit:
option 5: single fivestar, but few people know what one fivestar means (without labels)

I like option 3. I just checked and rate does not handle labels on the votes either, so we need to add that feature (or just theme it) to either rate or fivestar.

Rate module will work I think. I'm going to get it mostly setup on a denver2012 scratch site and then see about modifying it (using an alter) to not show results.

Rate has been deployed to test-denver2012 staging.

Session:

http://test-denver2012.redesign.devdrupal.org/program/sessions/adding-bp...

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Here's the markup for the widget after voting:

<div id="rate-node-2979-1-1" class="rate-widget-1 rate-widget clear-block rate-user rate-widget-emotion rate-ZiTSw9HI4bmG94ekX4X8xzT8WG276eyb6l-dzpDrMMc rate-processed"><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first"><a href="/rate/vote/js?widget_id=1&amp;content_type=node&amp;content_id=2979&amp;widget_mode=1&amp;token=rzf0k_Czs4fu5Qb_WpRjpiq5nRD4DCFTOXBiHKED1aM&amp;r=21017&amp;rate=ul8SNUGa28zL2-Vxh1LrE9U-c4fgb5MfgET-0QF0luU" rel="nofollow" id="rate-button-1" class="rate-button rate-emotion-btn">I have no interest in this session</a>0</li>
<li><a href="/rate/vote/js?widget_id=1&amp;content_type=node&amp;content_id=2979&amp;widget_mode=1&amp;token=rzf0k_Czs4fu5Qb_WpRjpiq5nRD4DCFTOXBiHKED1aM&amp;r=21017&amp;rate=bwoaTovYaS32ZoW2bJew6voA4VLI3HvfDaEFc1coIj8" rel="nofollow" id="rate-button-2" class="rate-button rate-emotion-btn">I would probably not attend this session</a>0</li>
<li><a href="/rate/vote/js?widget_id=1&amp;content_type=node&amp;content_id=2979&amp;widget_mode=1&amp;token=rzf0k_Czs4fu5Qb_WpRjpiq5nRD4DCFTOXBiHKED1aM&amp;r=21017&amp;rate=KZ4w-iuYuKqJMGVRNtYI14sRCqQ1TmeyQckh56l9iqw" rel="nofollow" id="rate-button-3" class="rate-button rate-emotion-btn">I might attend this session</a>0</li>
<li><a href="/rate/vote/js?widget_id=1&amp;content_type=node&amp;content_id=2979&amp;widget_mode=1&amp;token=rzf0k_Czs4fu5Qb_WpRjpiq5nRD4DCFTOXBiHKED1aM&amp;r=21017&amp;rate=rzf0k_Czs4fu5Qb_WpRjpiq5nRD4DCFTOXBiHKED1aM" rel="nofollow" id="rate-button-4" class="rate-button rate-emotion-btn">I would probably attend this session</a>1</li>
<li class="last"><a href="/rate/vote/js?widget_id=1&amp;content_type=node&amp;content_id=2979&amp;widget_mode=1&amp;token=rzf0k_Czs4fu5Qb_WpRjpiq5nRD4DCFTOXBiHKED1aM&amp;r=21017&amp;rate=jqzblC803x01d86HgBZV3iRhci2AnGblPvIGArGhP28" rel="nofollow" id="rate-button-5" class="rate-button rate-emotion-btn">I totally want to see this session</a>0</li>
</ul></div><div class="rate-info">You voted 'I would probably attend this session'.</div><div class="rate-description">Let us know your interest in this session being selected for DrupalCon</div></div>

After talking with kenwoodworth and greggles we agreed to just comment out the votes from the Rate emotion preprocess function and I'll add an h2 to the tpl. Needs some theming to finalize.

http://test-denver2012.redesign.devdrupal.org/program/sessions/explore-i...

This was deployed!

Ideally we should hide this on accepted sessions. I don't plan to work on that so I won't re-open, but wanted to at least document it.