I could have sworn there was a way to define a view to say something like "show me a random node from a given queue". It's even mentioned in the README.txt as a possible use case. ;) However, grepping the source, the only support for "random" nodes from a queue seems to be nodequeue_fetch_random(), but that's not exposed to views at all. Am I missing something? Should I write a patch against nodequeue.views.inc for this?

Thanks,
-Derek

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

filter the view to a queue
sort the view by random

dww’s picture

dww
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Sorry I missed the generic views "random" sort order... I get it now. Thanks!

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

blockedmind’s picture

blockedmind commented

it does not select randomly. it displayes selected queue in random order.

ezra-g’s picture

ezra-g commented

@blockedmind: limit the queue to only show one node.

blockedmind’s picture

blockedmind commented

it is already limited to 1.

blockedmind’s picture

blockedmind commented

so?

welly’s picture

welly commented

It doesn't select what randomly?

bricej13’s picture

bricej13 commented

I had the same problem, turns out I had my table sorted by one of the columns. I changed the sort to none and it fixed my problem.