Item13031: Create SocialFormfieldsPlugin

This is going to be a plugin that allows you to have DataForms formfields of the kind

• socialrating
• socialradio
• socialselect

and the like. The difference to the "non-social" formfield types - rating, radio and select - is that the social ones will allow any user to have their own value set. So whenever user A edits a topic with a socialrating formfield in the attached DataForm will he see and edit his own value. User B won't be able to change the value that user A has entered when it is his turn to edit the topic. Instead, values added by all users will be stored in a database behind the scene that holds the personal values of each user. These will be swapped in and out during an edit-save cycle. Viewing the topic will display an average rating among all ratings performed by all users, or the best selection performed via a socialradio or socialselect formfield. Values can also be extracted in json form to be used in HighchartsPlugin or the like to render a bar chart of the distribution.

-- MichaelDaum - 18 Sep 2014

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