By Gastonia on

I am creating a directory with reviews in D7 (7.8). I downloaded the Fivestar module and successfully integrated that into the comments field as I want each member who leaves a comment to be able to put in his or her own review - so far smooth sailing.

However, a couple things - These comment fields do not show up in Views - is this a bug? Am I not doing something correctly? None of my custom fields in comments show up in Views.

Ideally, what I would like to do is have people add a comment, rate it, and, in the node of the item being reviews, I somehow could average user comments and display them there.

Any thoughts on how to achieve that or if I am approaching Comments incorrectly in views?

Thanks,
Blue

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ayesh’s picture

ayesh commented

I think you need to add a "relationship" to Vote Results to make them available in Views.

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Gastonia’s picture

Gastonia commented

It was a relationship issue, thanks - but to explain a little more, if anyone is actually having this problem you should start with the Comment views type. The relationships are created by default.

fidowu’s picture

fidowu commented

I'm new to Drupal (v7). I have created a comment view type but not sure what to do next. On the subsequent page do I create an Relationship with Vote results to get the Average comment rating. Please help

rajmataj’s picture

rajmataj commented

Can you please explain how you used Views to show the Comment form? I am trying to create a block that could use the NID as an argument to then display the comment form for a node. I don't need to show the actual comments made, just the form. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks!

one_orange_cat’s picture

one_orange_cat commented

The following code generates the comment form, and you can use it directly in your main view template file (e.g. views-view or views-view-unformatted - wherever you can access the NID in question) -

$build = drupal_get_form("comment_node_{$node->type}_form", (object) array('nid' => $node->nid));
print render($build);

If you do this and then want the user to be returned to your view after comment submission, you'll also need something like the following in a custom module:

// Make sure we are redirected back to the originating view page after submitting a comment
function MY_MODULE_form_comment_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
	if ($form_id == 'comment_node_CONTENT_TYPE_form') {
		$path = drupal_get_destination();
		$form['#action'] .= '?destination=' . $path['destination'];
	}
}