[support] Getting A View to "ORDER BY RAND ()"

[Paul Kim]

There IS a sort criteria called "Random" in the drop-down list. You're 
probably not looking closely enough.

Shai Gluskin wrote:
> 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