Add the criteria “Random” (it’s listed as a field) … does that do what you’re looking to do?

Brian

From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Shai Gluskin
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:12 PM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: [support] Getting A View to "ORDER BY RAND ()"

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