Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Adding Ratings to the Blog Home Page

Now that you’ve added the functionality for people to rate blog posts on the post.aspx page, you need to modify the home page of the blog site so that users can view blog post ratings. To modify the home page of the blog site and add rating results against each blog post, perform the following steps.

1. In SharePoint Designer, click All Files, right-click the site’s default.aspx page, and click Edit File in Advanced Mode.

2. Switch to code view and add the SharePointPortalControls tag prefix to the page following Step 2 in the preceding exercise. Save the page and click Yes to the Site Definition Page Warning dialog.

3. Switch the page to design view and select the XLV (see Figure 24.66). Customize the XLV ...