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@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@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Pavan Keshavamurthy <pavan.k.murthy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [support] Random Display of articles
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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