[support] Getting A View to "ORDER BY RAND ()"

[Craig Jackson]

Under Sort Criteria, select Random as the field.

Craig

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
> I have a need for Views to "ORDER BY RAND ()"
>
> The use-case is that I want to pull in the teaser of a particular
> content-type for one node only onto the home page. I want it to randomly
> select the node it displays.
>
> Everything is easy except the random part. The home page is a panel page.
> I've built a view, filtered on content-type, set the number of nodes to
> display at "1" -- successfully pulled it into the panel.
>
> I thought the way to do this would be to set a sort criteria. But I see only
> "ascending" and "descending" -- I don't see "random" as a choice.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm using Drupal 5.8,  Views 1.6 and Panels 2 Beta
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shai
>
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