Enable Like on List Items

Like: Like is a Microblogging feature of SharePoint 2013. Although it is disabled for list items by default, we can enable it using list settings.


Figure 1: Like

Create List: To start with, create a new list and add a few items into it as shown in the following screenshot:


Figure 2: Create List

Now go to the list settings. You will see the Ratings settings as shown in the following screenshot:


Figure 3: Contact Settings

Choose the following options:


Figure 4: Rating Settings

Save the changes and return to the list. You should see the Like link now.

Testing Like: You can click on the Like link to test it.


Figure 5: Contacts

Now the Like link converts to unlike and it will also display the Total Like count.


Figure 6: New Item

This shows the usage of Rating Settings to enable like item for a list item.



We can use the Like functionality to enable user-voting on multiple choices.

References

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219700.aspx

Summary

In this article we have seen how to enable Like button for list items.