EWZ-Rating

Installation

• Either

  • Go to Plugins -> Install New and search for EWZ-Rating. Click “Install Now”.
    Or
  • Download and unzip the file into your plugins folder.

• In the administration area, go to Plugins, look for “EWZ-Rating”, and click “activate”.

• The “Rating Forms” and “Rating Schemes” links should appear on the administration sidebar in the EntryWizard menu.

Usage

• As with EntryWizard, most inputs in the administration area have popup help displays describing their use.

• A rating-scheme is quite similar to an EntryWizard layout — it specifies the format of the form generated by the ewz_show_rating shortcode.

• Because it may use some of the layout fields for displaying read-only data, each rating-scheme applies to just one layout. Thus to create a rating-scheme you first have to select a layout.

• A rating-form is analagous to an EntryWizard webform. It specifies a form to be displayed by the ewz_show_rating shortcode. For each form, you may specify which images are displayed, and which judges have access.

• Once the judging is complete, the administrators may download a spreadsheet containing the entered scores/comments in one of two possible forms – either one line per rating, or one line per image.

• If needed, further forms for tiebreaking, etc, may be generated that contain only specified images, and are visible only to specified judges.

• Quickstart for the impatient ( for further details, click on the information buttons ):

  1. Assign the “EntryWizard Judge” role to your judges ( it may be helpful to have a plugin installed that allows users to have multiple roles ).

  2. In the EntryWizard “Rating Schemes” page, select the layout you wish to use and click “Add a New Scheme”.

  3. Give the scheme a name. Drag the fields you wish to display to the judges into the right-hand column.

  4. Add any fields you wish the judges to fill out ( works like EntryWizard fields ).

  5. Set the image size, background color and text color, and save the scheme.

  6. In the EntryWizard “Rating Forms” page, select your scheme and click “Add a New Rating Form”.
     All webforms with your selected layout should display in the “Item Selection” list.
     All your members with “EntryWizard Judge” role should display in the “Access Control” list.

  7. Fill out the name, identifier, webform(s) and judges, open the rating form and save.

  8. Create a page containing the shortcode [ewz_show_rating identifier=”.. your identifier here ..”].
     Clicking on a thumbnail in the page should open a new window containing a larger version of the image.
     Subsequent clicks on other thumbnails should cause the selected image to display in the same window.
     ( If you normally have new windows open in tabs, you may need to drag the tab out of the browser window ).

  9. Once the judging is over, download the results in a spreadsheet.

  10. If further information is required about specific images, or ties need to be broken, create a new page with
      [ewz_show_rating ….] shortcodes tailored to your needs ( see the help item at the top of the Rating Forms page ).

Changelog

Fixed error showing hidden rating forms

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