Thread:Extension talk:Semantic Rating/Passing a field value to rating/reply (2)

I'm glad that you were able to get the extension to work for you. In addition to the approach that you took, you could also do the following. In your example, your semantic form sets field RatingFieldVar. Therefore, in the template associated with that form field, you should be able to use:

SemanticForms will pass the field RatingFieldVar into the template as a named parameter, so will give you the value of that parameter or an empty string (which gives five grey stars) if the rating is not set. I hope that helps.