[support] Random Display of articles

[Shai Gluskin]

Ram,

"Random" is not an attribute like "ascending/descending".

Rather... it is its own field to sort or on. Click on the drop-down for
adding another field to sort on... go through the list slowly and you'll see
"Random" as a choice.

You might, if I remember correctly, even be able to set ascending/descending
as an attribute after you have added Random as a new sort field. That, of
course, makes no sense and it makes no difference what that attribute is set
to.

I needed help in a similar situation as well; it really is counter-intuitive
for "Random" to be a field to sort on. But we do love Views, so we'll take
it with its warts.

Good luck,

Shai

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:25 AM, ram prasath <ramprasath_explicit at yahoo.co.in
> wrote:

> Hi Pavan,
>    Thank you..But I didn't find sort criteria random .I found sort
> criteria  ascending and descending only....Can u tel  me how to set a sort
> criteria random
>
> regards
> Ram
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 3/4/09, Pavan Keshavamurthy <pavan.k.murthy at gmail.com>*wrote:
>
>
> From: Pavan Keshavamurthy <pavan.k.murthy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Random Display of articles
> To: support at drupal.org
> Date: Friday, 3 April, 2009, 2:15 PM
>
>
> Create a View(A block view), Set number of nodes to 1,  filter your content
>
> type (article), and set sort criteria to random.
>
> Pavan Keshavamurthy
>
> On Friday 03 April 2009 12:52:50 ram prasath wrote:
> > Hi Friends,
> >
> >  I have 10 articles I want to display only one article at a time inside a
> > block and the articles must be randomly choose from that 10 articles.
> After
> > every page refresh I want a random article to be displayed inside the
> > block..
> >
> > CAN ANY 1 TEL ME HOW TO DO IT......
> >
> > THANKS IN ADVANCE FRIENDS
> >
> > Regards
> > Ram
> >
> >
> >
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