how do i *force* a user to rate when submitting a reply?

what template do i edit, and what do i change in order to force a user to select a rating for when they reply to a thread?

[Admin]

Edit newreply_ratethread template and removed this:

		<option value="0"$rate[0]>Select a rating (optional)</option>

And it might even work!

BTW, you might want to replace this:

		<option value="3"$rate[3]>3 .. Average</option>

With this:

		<option value="3"$rate[3]$rate[0]>3 .. Average</option>

So Average will be selected by default.

[212rikanmofo]

doesnt work

you know when you goto REPLY to a thread, it has a pulldown box to let you select 1 -5? well if a user doesnt select anything, how do you make it popup a window and say "Please rate this before submitting"? in other words the user is forced to select a rating, if he doesn't then a popup window will prompt the user to rate it, kind of like a required field... thats what i want to do.

[Admin]

Works for me.

[212rikanmofo]

it does? so if you dont select a rating, it will pop up a window and tell you to rate it b4 submitting?

on mine, if i dont select anything, it still submits the post, which i dont want it to...

i want it to popup a window if a user doesnt select a rating, telling him/her to select a rating from the dropdown list b4 he continues.

thats what im trying to do....

[Admin]

My way just doesn't let users choose the "No Rating" option.

[212rikanmofo]

do you think you can make it where it pops up a window if a user doesnt select anything from the rating drop down list? do you know how to do it like that please?

[Admin]

Nope.

[212rikanmofo]

nope you don't know how to do it, or nope you don't want to tell me? please help me out

[NTLDR]

I think what FireFly means is that you should try to do it yourself instead of asking others to do it all for you.

That way you will learn something.