Rating with Form-Based Publishing

Hi everybody,
i'm trying to get the Portal rating service to work with XML form-based publishing. The items to be rated are news, which are in a folder on which i already activated the repository service. Then I modified the layout set, adding in the resource renderer the appropriate command group to be displayed.
The result is that i now have a command bar below the news, which can be clicked by users to rate it.
Now I have to make the mean rating to be displayed, but it is more difficult than i thought. Here is a picture of what i would like:
[Image|http://www.mypicturehost.com/show.php/57948_Immagine.jpg.html]
where the red circle is the part still missing.
Do you have any idea on what to do? I suppose that if i want to display the data, i have to add something to the XML, and to the XLST rendering it, too. I just don't know where to get that data, and how.
Thank you in advance.

Hello,
I assume your layout set is rendering one of the forms you developed on a xml form project,
open you project and check your Data Model, under Properties > Collaboration you might find
the property Rating.
If you can't see this property there, go on portal
Content Management > Metadata > Property Metadata > Properties
and search for cm_rating, make sure the Hidden+ parameter is uncheked, if it isn't, do so,
save, refresh your data model and it should be visible.
You can then assign it to a Control Selector and based on its values display the stars properly,
or just assign it to a label and display as integer, doesn't really matter, once you have the Rating value
you can work the way it suits you better
kind regards,
Rafael

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