By monkfish4d on

Hello,

I've not done much with Drupal but from the reading it seems you can order nodes in Views.

Is it possible to randomly order the selection of nodes?

Or is there a workaround such as a assign a random number to a node each time it's viewed and then order by that field?

Thanks,
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WorldFallz commented

Yes, you can do this with views-- just set the sort order to "random".

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monkfish4d commented

ah superb! :)

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WorldFallz commented

And if you set the number of items to 1, you end up with a random item from that view. Useful for random photos or quotes types of blocks.

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz

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daemmon commented

For anyone as dense as me: When choosing the Sort Criteria, the 'Random' option is in the (alphabetically sorted) list as "Global: Random" not "Random" as I has assumed. It took me a while to find it.