How to Turn Off Forum Ratings?

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By: Rick Reszler

Posted: Wed, May 7 2008 10:48 AM In reply to

Paul,  What I did to figure this out was open a default out of the box CS 2.1 web files with Visual Studio and then located the tag in the code that runs the rating control (CSD:RatePost). Once you open a site or set of files in VS you can search the entire folder for contents of the files, it’s really awesome!

This is the results of the search and all these files contain the tag/line of code that renders the rating control. I only search the default themes folder for this tag.

Find all "CSD:RatePost", Subfolders, Find Results 1, "S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default"

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-MyForums.ascx(106):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-MyForums.ascx(151):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-PostFlatView.ascx(64):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-PostFlatView.ascx(90):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-PrivateMessages.ascx(71):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-PrivateMessages.ascx(125):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-SinglePostView.ascx(27):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-SinglePostViewInThreadedView.ascx(110):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-SinglePostViewInThreadedView.ascx(112):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-ThreadRatingSummary.ascx(28):         

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-Threads.ascx(127):

  S:\cs21.datatube.net\Themes\default\Skins\View-Threads.ascx(188):

  Matching lines: 12    Matching files: 7    Total files searched: 213

So in each one of these files you need to comment out the line that contains this tag. For example in the first file at the top of the list (View-MyForums.ascx) you will find that on line 106 it looks like this:

<td class="ForumSubListCell">

                                                      <CSD:RatePost IsReadOnly="true" Thread='<%# (Thread) Container.DataItem %>' runat="server" CssClass="CommonRateControl" ReadOnlyCssClass="CommonRateControlReadOnly" ActiveCssClass="CommonRateControlActive" ImagesBaseUrl="~/Themes/default/images/common/" runat="server" />

                                                </td>

To comment out this line it should look like this:

<td class="ForumSubListCell">

                                                      <!--<CSD:RatePost IsReadOnly="true" Thread='<%# (Thread) Container.DataItem %>' runat="server" CssClass="CommonRateControl" ReadOnlyCssClass="CommonRateControlReadOnly" ActiveCssClass="CommonRateControlActive" ImagesBaseUrl="~/Themes/default/images/common/" runat="server" />-->

                                                </td>

Hope this helps!

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