This widget allows the Drupal Five Star module to accept inputs from multiple votes for various criteria and average it into one, It then displays the average of the multiple votes.

To create views sortable by the new widget (the average of five votes), hook_votingapi_results_alter() was used in a small custom module.

Below is a tutorial on how to implement the code.

Best practices using multiple votes criteria In node using FiveStar module in Drupal 6.

1. Enable Fivestar module, Voting API.
2. Go to edit content type and Enable Fivestar rating.
3. Add CCK field Type Fivestar Rating with “Fivestar rating” Select list widget.
4. Configure this CCK field: add Voting Axis: which is the multiple criteria separated by a comma. For example: first, second, third, fourth, fifth . Save field settings.
5. Create the template for node type. In this example it is node type is “teacher”. This will be node-teacher.tpl.php .

In the template paste this snippet:

$output = '';
$tags = array(
'first' = t('Communication'),
'second' = t(‘Availability'),
'third' = t(‘Skills'),
'fourth' = t(‘Efficiency'),
'fifth' = t(‘Personality'),
);
$i = 0;
foreach ($tags as $tag = $title) {
$votes = fivestar_get_votes('node', $node->nid, $tag);
if(!empty($votes['average']['value'])){
$i++;
}
$values = array(
'user' = isset($votes['user']['value']) ? $votes['user']['value'] : NULL,
'average' = isset($votes['average']['value']) ? $votes['average']['value'] : NULL,
'count' = isset($votes['count']['value']) ? $votes['count']['value'] : NULL,
);