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

[Shai Gluskin]

Thanks Brian, Paul, and Craig,

Duhh. Okay, now I see it. I thought I'd have to chose the field and then
expected random to be in the drop-down that has ascending/descending.

But it's not that way, so my eyes missed it.

Thanks much, this is perfect.

Shai

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Brian Choc <bchoc at t4tcolorado.org> wrote:

>  Add the criteria "Random" (it's listed as a field) … does that do what
> you're looking to do?
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> Brian
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> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Shai Gluskin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:12 PM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Subject:* [support] Getting A View to "ORDER BY RAND ()"
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> I have a need for Views to "ORDER BY RAND ()"
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any ideas?
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> I'm using Drupal 5.8,  Views 1.6 and Panels 2 Beta
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> Thanks,
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> Shai
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