[support] Random Display of articles

[Shai Gluskin]

Ram,

You are welcome. And it was Pavan who first answered, I just picked up from
him.

FYI -- For anonymous users, if you have caching turned on... I'm pretty sure
this approach *will not* work like you expect it to. The query runs, it
picks a random choice... but then then the whole page is cached and
presented to non-authenticated users the same way every time (refreshing
page makes no difference) until you change something on the page which
causes the cache to be overwritten or until you clear the cache.

For logged-in authenticated users I'm pretty sure it will work as you are
expecting it to.

Best,

Shai



On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:21 AM, ram prasath <ramprasath_explicit at yahoo.co.in
> wrote:

> HI Shai,
>
> MY HEARTY THANK'S TO YOU
>
>   I did display the way you said and I found my articles displaying in
> ascending order in that global Random.And my article is getting changed on
> every page refresh is any other to display my articles without page refresh
> in random
>
> Regards
>  Ram
>
> --- On *Fri, 3/4/09, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Random Display of articles
> To: support at drupal.org
> Date: Friday, 3 April, 2009, 4:29 PM
>
>
> 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<http://mc/compose?to=ramprasath_explicit@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<http://mc/compose?to=pavan.k.murthy@gmail.com>
>> >* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Pavan Keshavamurthy <pavan.k.murthy at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=pavan.k.murthy@gmail.com>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [support] Random Display of articles
>> To: support at drupal.org <http://mc/compose?to=support@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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