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@t4tcolorado.org> wrote:

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


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